BBG_index_market: Retrieves index historical market data from Bloomberg.

In bautheac/pullit: Pulling financial data from Bloomberg made easy

Description

Provided with a set of Bloomberg index tickers and a time period, queries Bloomberg for the corresponding index historical market data.

Usage

BBG_index_market(tickers, start, end, verbose = T, ...)

Arguments

tickers	a chatacter vector. Specifies the Bloomberg index tickers to query data for.
start	a scalar character vector. Specifies the starting date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
end	a scalar character vector. Specifies the end date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
verbose	a logical scalar vector. Should progression messages be printed? Defaults to TRUE.
...	optional parameters to pass to the bdh function from the Rblpapi package used for the query (options parameter).

Value

An S4 object of class IndexMarket.

See Also

• The fields dataset in the BBGsymbols package (finRes suite) for details on the Bloomnerg fields used here.

• Helper datasets in the fewISOs and GICS packages (finRes suite).

Examples

## Not run: 

    BBG_index_market(tickers = c("NEIXCTA Index", "BARCCTA Index"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

  
## End(Not run)

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