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EuStockMarkets {ts}R Documentation

Daily Closing Prices of Major European Stock Indices, 1991-1998.

Description

Contains the daily closing prices of major European stock indices: Germany DAX (Ibis), Switzerland SMI, France CAC, and UK FTSE. The data are sampled in business time, i.e., weekends and holidays are omitted.

Usage

data(EuStockMarkets)

Format

A multivariate time series with 1860 observations on 4 variables. The object is of class "mts".

Source

The data were kindly provided by Erste Bank AG, Vienna, Austria.