stock_indices {qrmdata}

Stock Index Data

Description

Single stock indices.

Usage

data("SP500")
data("DJ")
data("NASDAQ")
data("FTSE")
data("SMI")
data("EURSTOXX")
data("CAC")
data("DAX")
data("CSI")
data("HSI")
data("SSEC")
data("NIKKEI")

Format

xts objects containing adjusted close prices of the S&P 500 (SP500; ticker symbol “^GSPC”), Dow Jones (DJ; ticker symbol “^DJI”), NASDAQ 100 (NASDAQ; ticker symbol “^NDX”), FTSE 100 (FTSE; ticker symbol “^FTSE”), Swiss Market Index (SMI; ticker symbol “^SSMI”), Euro Stoxx 50 (EURSTOXX; ticker symbol “^STOXX50E”), Cotation Assistée en Continu (CAC; ticker symbol “^FCHI”), Deutscher Aktienindex (DAX; ticker sybmol “^GDAXI”), China Securities Index (CSI; ticker sybmol “000300.SS”), Hang Seng Index (HSI; ticker symbol “^HSI”), Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index (SSEC; ticker symbol “000001.SS”) and the NIKKEI (NIKKEI; ticker symbol “^N225”) from their first date of availablility to 2015-12-31.

Author(s)

Marius Hofert

Source

The data was obtained from Yahoo Finance on 2016-01-03 via the function get_data() from qrmtools.

Examples

data("SP500")
data("DJ")
data("NASDAQ")
data("FTSE")
data("SMI")
data("EURSTOXX")
data("CAC")
data("DAX")
data("CSI")
data("HSI")
data("SSEC")
data("NIKKEI")