Retrieves equity historical market data from Bloomberg.

Provided with a set of equity Bloomberg tickers and a time period, queries Bloomberg for the corresponding equity historical market data.

BBG_equity_market(tickers, start, end, verbose = T, ...)

Arguments

tickers	a chatacter vector. Specifies the equity Bloomberg tickers to query data for.
start	a scalar character vector. Specifies the starting date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
end	a scalar character vector. Specifies the end date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
verbose	a logical scalar vector. Should progression messages be printed? Defaults to TRUE.
...	optional parameters to pass to the bdh function from the Rblpapi package used for the query (options parameter).

Value

An S4 object of class EquityMarket.

See also

• The fields dataset in the BBGsymbols package (finRes suite) for details on the Bloomnerg fields used here.

• Helper datasets in the fewISOs and GICS packages (finRes suite).

Examples

if (FALSE) {

    BBG_equity_market(tickers = c("BP/ LN Equity", "WEIR LN Equity"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

  }