YieldCurve (version 4.1)

ECBYieldCurve: Yield curve data spot rate, AAA-rated bonds, maturities from 3 months to 30 years

Description

Government bond, nominal, all triple A issuer companies. The maturities are 3 and 6 months and from 1 year to 30 years with frequency business day, provided by European Central Bank. The range date is from 2006-12-29 to 2009-07-24.

Usage

data(ECBYieldCurve)

Format

It is an xts object with 32 interest rate at different matuirties and 655 obeservations.

Source

ECB: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/money/yc/html/index.en.html.

Examples

### plot ECB Yield Curve ###
data(ECBYieldCurve)

first(ECBYieldCurve,'3 day')
last(ECBYieldCurve,'3 day')

mat.ECB <- tau <- c(3/12,6/12,1:30)

par(mfrow=c(2,3))
for( i in c(1,2,3,653,654,655) ){
plot(mat.ECB, ECBYieldCurve[i,], type="o", xlab="Maturities structure in years", ylab="Interest rates values")
title(main=paste("European Central Bank yield curve obeserved at",time(ECBYieldCurve[i], sep=" ") ))
grid()
}