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Index and Commodity Benchmarks provides daily prices for 425 equity indices and 40 commodities — the S&P 500, the Nikkei, the Hang Seng, gold, WTI, copper. Each observation is one benchmark symbol on one date. History runs from 2015, ten years, which is far longer than the one-year window on company prices.
Plan: Professional and above · Credits: 1 per call

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What You Can Use Benchmarks For

Compute a stock’s return relative to the market it trades in. Measure a company’s exposure to a commodity it buys or sells. Build a long backtest baseline, which company prices cannot support at one year of history. Compare regional markets over a decade.

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Benchmarks Cover Indices and Commodities, Not Companies

No company identifier works on this endpoint. It serves benchmark symbols only. For a company’s own price series, use Daily Prices.

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Look Up the Benchmark Symbol First

Benchmark symbols are vendor spellings and are not guessable. The S&P 500 is ^GSPC and gold is GCUSD, but 37 indices carry no caret at all: XIN9.FGI is the FTSE China A50, DX-Y.NYB is the dollar index, and 000001.SS is the Shanghai Composite despite looking exactly like a listed share.
Pass search with a name — gold, Nikkei, DAX — to get the registry back, optionally narrowed with kind to index or commodity. Search takes precedence when both search and symbol are supplied.

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Read close_major for a Commodity

Twelve agricultural contracts quote in US cents, with a currency of USX. Corn’s close of 508.5 is 5.085abushel,not5.085 a bushel, not 508.50.Read close_major and currency_major, which are the same figure folded into the major unit. For every other benchmark they equal close and currency, so reading them is always safe.

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Weekend Rows Are Real

A benchmark row on a Saturday or Sunday is not an error. The Saudi and Egyptian markets trade on Sunday, CBOT grains run a Sunday-evening session, and a few calculated indices restate Friday’s value on Saturday. Do not filter weekend rows out as bad data.

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Key Benchmark Fields

Each row carries the benchmark symbol, the date, the open, high, low and close, currency, and the close_major and currency_major pair described above. The registry rows returned by search carry the symbol, its name and its kind.

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Benchmarks Date Convention

Each row is the session on that date on the benchmark’s own calendar, which as noted is not always a weekday. History runs from 2015 and rows are returned newest first.

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Benchmarks Sources

Index and commodity prices come from market data vendors, in the vendor’s own symbol space — which is why the symbols must be looked up rather than constructed.

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Query Benchmarks

Use the benchmarks endpoint to look a symbol up, then to fetch its series.
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string
A name or symbol to look up instead of fetching a series, for example gold or Nikkei. Returns the registry.
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string
Restrict a search to index or commodity.
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string
The benchmark symbol whose series to fetch, for example ^GSPC, ^N225, GCUSD, CLUSD.
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string
Earliest date, YYYY-MM-DD. date_lte sets the ceiling.
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integer
default:"100"
Rows per page, between 1 and 1000. Page through with cursor.
See also Daily Prices for a company’s own series, Daily Market Cap, and Company Screening for momentum filters across the company universe.