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sp500: sp500

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.

Usage

sp500

Arguments

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.