global_returns_data: Dataset of global financial index returns
In bhuston/bhustonUtils: Ben Huston's collection of miscellaneous R functions

Daily returns for a broad set of national equity and other major financial indices, such as oil prices and option-implied equity volatilities

1	global_returns_data

A dataframe with 4641 observations 38 variables

country X: daily equity returns of the predominant national equity index of country X
gsci: daily return of the Goldman Sachs Commoditity Index (GSCI)
brent.crude: daily return of the nearest Brent Crude Oil futures contract
msci.world: daily return of the MSCI World equity index
global.volatility: daily percent change in a "global equity volatility index", which is a simple average of the VIX, VDAX, and Nikkei 225 volatility indices