Description
The sp500
datafile contains a year's worth of close-of-day data for most of the Standard and Poors 500 stocks. The data is in reverse chronological order,
with the top row being Dec 31st, 2008.
Format
This data file contains the following items:
- sp500.2008
- The raw close-of-day data. The first column is of the DJIA index, the second is the S&P 500 index, the rest are individual labeled stocks.
- sp500.diff
- The daily difference.
- sp500.percent
- The daily percentage change.
Source
This database was generated using data available http://finance.yahoo.com .Details
The goal can be to estimate either index using the individual stocks.