samarket: Financial Data of South Africa

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

The SA 40 index is an index of the top 40 stocks in South Africa. The value of the SA 40 index and the rand-dollar exchange rate is collected for dates from 2001 through 2021, with some missing values at the beginning.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 4769 observations of 2 variables

date

Date from 2001-12-18 to 1-13-2021

sa40

The closing price of the SA 40 index.

zar_usd

Closing exchange rate in terms of rand per dollar.

Details

Several of the stocks do business overseas and earn income in foreign denominations. A weak rand would indicate that repatriating money to South Africa would receive a higher share of domestic currency.

Source

https://za.investing.com/


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