XigniteGlobalIndicesHistorical Overview
This API offers historical daily index values for more than 10,000 U.S. and global market indices, including popular index families such as Dow Jones, S&P, NASDAQ, Hang Seng and others. Distribution of historical stock market index data is occasionally subject to strict licensing by the index family.
Key Features
- Historical Data
- Some index providers require firms that display historical index data on web sites and portals to establish distribution agreements and pay distribution fees.
- Volume information is available but only on a limited set of indices
- Index lists by index group
- Index search by name
- Values for one or multiple symbols
- Index identification by Symbol, Cusip, Valoren, or ISIN when available
- Support for XML, CSV, and JSON output
Key Benefits
- Use a single easy-to-use API to obtain historical index values
- Access institutional quality historical benchmark data through an easy-to-use API
- Easily embed historical index and benchmark values in your applications--including spreadsheets, websites, mobile apps and other corporate applications
- Dramatically reduce time to market for apps that need index values and benchmark data
- Eliminate the pains and complexity of legacy feeds by using cloud APIs
Data Coverage At-A-Glance
- Asset Classes: Indices, Benchmarks
- Index Groups Covered: NASDAQ, NYSE, CBOE/MDX, Dow Jones, S&P, S&P/TSX, S&P/ASX, S&P/HKex
- FTSE (UK), NIKKEI (Japan), Deutsche Borse (Germany), NSE Nifty (India), NZX (New Zealand), SSE (Shanghai), SZSE (Shenzhen)
- For a list of Index Groups, use ListIndexGroups
Key Data Points
- Index Value: Last, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Previous Close, Change, Date, Time, UTCOffset
- Index Description: Symbol, Name, Valoren, Index Group, Currency