Paper Title
The Impact of Information Sources on Investment Decision: Evidence Muscat Stok Exchange
Abstract
The study aims to explore the resources of information that have been currently used by Omani investors. It also aims to highlight how rational are the Omani investors while making investment decision taking the information sources figure out from the outcome. The study will conduct a questionnaire targeting only Omani investors both Male and females as well as interviews with professional in the field, here means local asset managers who directly deals with investors as they are main clients. The study is adapting a pragmatic paradigm,which consider a mixstructure study utilizing quantitative and qualitative where the researcher believe willbetter explains and serves the purpose of this research.Later, the origins of this problem willscientifically addressed by testing the probable relationship between the informationsources that are considered independent factors and the Omani investor investmentdecision using positivist philosophy utilizing the acquired data and hypothesis analysis.The study is anticipated to be significant and crucial withpotential benefit theoretically and practically to society, to Stock Market Authority and will explore unknown area of Omani investors investment behavior that will might anticipated the future of Muscat Stock exchange as well as addressing the gaps between the investor’s needs and regulators of MSX regarding theirefforts to attract Omani’s as well as foreign investors to invest in the market.