investigated. This study utilized weekly data spanning January 1988 to August 1999. The
results of Granger noncausality test due to Toda and Yamamoto (Journal of Econometrics,
66, 225–50, 1995) reveal that the Singapore equity market was not affected by other markets
except by the Philippines in the long run. This result shows that there exist opportunities for
beneficial international portfolio diversification within the context of the Asean-5 equity …