Daily S&P 500 Index data from 1950 to 2015

This dataset provides daily price indicators for the S&P 500 index from the beginning of 1950 to the end of 2015. The index includes 500 leading companies and captures about 80 percent coverage of available market capitalization.

Usage

sp500

Format

A tibble with 16,607 rows and 7 variables:

date

The date expressed as Date values.

open, high, low, close

The day's opening, high, low, and closing prices in USD. The close price is adjusted for splits.

volume

The number of trades for the given date.

adj_close

The close price adjusted for both dividends and splits.

Dataset ID and Badge

DATA-4

Dataset Introduced

v0.2.0.5 (March 31, 2020)

See also

Other datasets: constants, countrypops, exibble, films, gibraltar, gtcars, illness, metro, nuclides, peeps, photolysis, pizzaplace, reactions, rx_addv, rx_adsl, sza, towny

Examples

dplyr::glimpse(sp500)
#> Rows: 16,607
#> Columns: 7
#> $ date      <date> 2015-12-31, 2015-12-30, 2015-12-29, 2015-12-28, 2015-12-24,…
#> $ open      <dbl> 2060.59, 2077.34, 2060.54, 2057.77, 2063.52, 2042.20, 2023.1…
#> $ high      <dbl> 2062.54, 2077.34, 2081.56, 2057.77, 2067.36, 2064.73, 2042.7…
#> $ low       <dbl> 2043.62, 2061.97, 2060.54, 2044.20, 2058.73, 2042.20, 2020.4…
#> $ close     <dbl> 2043.94, 2063.36, 2078.36, 2056.50, 2060.99, 2064.29, 2038.9…
#> $ volume    <dbl> 2655330000, 2367430000, 2542000000, 2492510000, 1411860000, …
#> $ adj_close <dbl> 2043.94, 2063.36, 2078.36, 2056.50, 2060.99, 2064.29, 2038.9…