Get World Financial Indices Latest Values (USD)

Get latest stock market indices values and data for more than 40 world-indices, e.g., latest prices, change and percentage change.

Usage

last_indices(.verbose = T, keep = NULL)

.verbose: logical, default = TRUE - If TRUE, send messages to the console if necessary.
keep: character - Character vector of symbols to filter the results (perl expression, ignoring case). If NULL (default), no filtering is applied, and all available indices are returned.

A data frame with the following columns:

symbol: character - Ticker symbol of the index, aka world indices (e.g., '^GSPC' for S&P 500).
name: character - Full name of the index (e.g., "S&P 500").
price: numeric - Current value of the index (USD).
change: numeric - Absolute change in index value since the last closing of the exchange place.
change_percent: numeric - Percentage change in index value since the last closing of the exchange place.
volume: numeric - The total trading volume of the index components.
currency: character - Currency associated with the world-indice, i.e. 'USD'.

Return a data.frame with additional attributes:

n.currencies: integer - Number of unique currencies in the data.frame.
currencies: character - A vector of currency symbols in the data.frame (e.g., "BTC", "ETH", "USD").
exchange: character - A vector of exchange pairs (e.g., "BTC => USD"). If not applicable, NULL (no entry).
date.fetch: Date - The date when the data was retrieved, set using Sys.Date().
crypto: logical - TRUE if cryptocurrencies are present, otherwise FALSE.
date.begin: POSIXct - The oldest observation in the dataset.
date.end: POSIXct - The most recent observation in the dataset.
date.dif: numeric - The number of seconds between date.begin and date.end, equivalent of difftime value.

Source : Yahoo's world indices page - https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/world-indices

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
indices <- last_indices()
head(indices)
} # }