The major indices of the US, the rest of the Americas,
Europe and Asia-Pacific, and the VIX, with their symbols on Yahoo Finance.
The label column holds the names, such as "S&P 500", that pick indices
in get_history().
Value
A data frame with a row per index: label, symbol on Yahoo
Finance, region ("US", "Americas", "Europe" or "Asia-Pacific"), the
currency of the shares in it, and from, the first day to keep, or
NA to keep all of the history. The VIX is a measure of the expected
volatility of the S&P 500, in percent a year, so its currency is NA.
The Bovespa starts in 1995: in the hyperinflation of Brazil before the
real, its returns of thousands of percent a year in the money of the time would swamp
every analysis.
Examples
get_indices()
#> label symbol region currency from
#> 1 S&P 500 ^GSPC US USD <NA>
#> 2 Dow Jones ^DJI US USD <NA>
#> 3 Nasdaq Composite ^IXIC US USD <NA>
#> 4 NYSE Composite ^NYA US USD <NA>
#> 5 Russell 2000 ^RUT US USD <NA>
#> 6 VIX ^VIX US <NA> <NA>
#> 7 S&P/TSX Composite ^GSPTSE Americas CAD <NA>
#> 8 Bovespa ^BVSP Americas BRL 1995-01-01
#> 9 IPC Mexico ^MXX Americas MXN <NA>
#> 10 STOXX Europe 600 ^STOXX Europe EUR <NA>
#> 11 Euro Stoxx 50 ^STOXX50E Europe EUR <NA>
#> 12 FTSE 100 ^FTSE Europe GBP <NA>
#> 13 DAX ^GDAXI Europe EUR <NA>
#> 14 CAC 40 ^FCHI Europe EUR <NA>
#> 15 IBEX 35 ^IBEX Europe EUR <NA>
#> 16 FTSE MIB FTSEMIB.MI Europe EUR <NA>
#> 17 SMI ^SSMI Europe CHF <NA>
#> 18 Euronext 100 ^N100 Europe EUR <NA>
#> 19 BEL 20 ^BFX Europe EUR <NA>
#> 20 AEX ^AEX Europe EUR <NA>
#> 21 ATX ^ATX Europe EUR <NA>
#> 22 ISEQ All Share ^ISEQ Europe EUR <NA>
#> 23 PSI PSI20.LS Europe EUR <NA>
#> 24 OMX Stockholm 30 ^OMX Europe SEK <NA>
#> 25 OMX Copenhagen 25 ^OMXC25 Europe DKK <NA>
#> 26 OMX Helsinki 25 ^OMXH25 Europe EUR <NA>
#> 27 OSEBX OSEBX.OL Europe NOK <NA>
#> 28 OMX Tallinn ^OMXTGI Europe EUR <NA>
#> 29 OMX Riga ^OMXRGI Europe EUR <NA>
#> 30 OMX Vilnius ^OMXVGI Europe EUR <NA>
#> 31 Athens General GD.AT Europe EUR <NA>
#> 32 BIST 100 XU100.IS Europe TRY <NA>
#> 33 Nikkei 225 ^N225 Asia-Pacific JPY <NA>
#> 34 Shanghai Composite 000001.SS Asia-Pacific CNY <NA>
#> 35 Hang Seng ^HSI Asia-Pacific HKD <NA>
#> 36 KOSPI ^KS11 Asia-Pacific KRW <NA>
#> 37 Taiwan Weighted ^TWII Asia-Pacific TWD <NA>
#> 38 Sensex ^BSESN Asia-Pacific INR <NA>
#> 39 Straits Times ^STI Asia-Pacific SGD <NA>
#> 40 ASX 200 ^AXJO Asia-Pacific AUD <NA>
#> 41 All Ordinaries ^AORD Asia-Pacific AUD <NA>
#> 42 NZX 50 ^NZ50 Asia-Pacific NZD <NA>
#> 43 IDX Composite ^JKSE Asia-Pacific IDR <NA>
#> 44 FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI ^KLSE Asia-Pacific MYR <NA>