Dr. Leo Rajan Pereira, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Stock Market Analytics from New York City earned the doctoral degree in finance. This was accomplished after achieving a distinct 4.0/4.0 GPA in the Ph.D. program. The entire process for the Ph.D. took eight years which cost enormous resources in the United States.

Not only a very long haul that tested many skills and characters but involved big data analytics by using IBM’s very sophisticated program. For the well-acclaimed dissertation, Dr. Pereira analyzed 44 quarters’ (from Q4 2007 to Q3 2018) entire financial statements of 56 large-cap corporations listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The corporations included in the study are from ADBE to WMT.

Over the decade, Dr. Pereira studied and analyzed more than 4,000 dissertations and about 28,000 academic research papers. 298 scholarly research papers were referenced in the quantitative study that comprised 9,900 data points collected from many U.S. federal agencies.

Findings: This extensive research in quantitative analysis of the New York Stock Market data from Q4 2007 to Q3 2018 had evidence that the Weak Form Efficient Market Hypothesis of Dr. Eugine Fama, the 2013 Nobel Prize Winner did not hold true in today’s economic conditions in the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The key findings trigger more research on the stock market. The quality of the quantitative research is followed by many scholars. This dissertation is copyrighted at the U.S. Copyrights and published on various platforms including ProQuest.

Dr. Leo Pereira also holds an M.Phil. in Management with a specialization in Finance, an M.B.A. with a specialization in Corporate Finance, an M.A. in Economics with a specialization in Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, and Applied Statistics, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics with minors Physics and Statistics. Dr. Pereira authored two academic books in his early days and also published many scholarly articles recently. Our Editor-in-Chief was a distinguished faculty of the New York City Department of Education before moving to management, corporate finance, and research.

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