[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg - no historical date retrieved since yesterday for ES1 Index

[Sergio Bizzotto]

Hello,

Since yesterday it seems like the historical data retrieval for the ticker ES1 Index does not work, NULL is returned. I run it for months and it used to work without any problems.

I am using the following:

conn <- blpConnect();
test=bdh(conn, securities="ES1 Index", fields=c("PX_OPEN", "PX_HIGH", "PX_LOW", "PX_LAST", "PX_BID", "PX_ASK", "PX_VOLUME"), start_date=as.Date("1990-01-01"), include.non.trading.days=F, dates.as.row.names=FALSE);

The same code works and retrieves data for all the other tickers I am using (87 futures tickers), including "NQ1 Index".

I am using Rbloomberg_0.4-149 with rJava_0.8-5.

Is anybody experiencing the same issue? I have spoken yesterday to Bloomberg and they said that their API is working fine and there are currently no problems. I also run the Bloomberg API diagnostic test and everything seems to work properly.
Initially I thought the problem could have been caused by yesterday's US holiday but today the problem still persists when retrieving the data for that ticker using RBloomberg. Any chance the problem is on the RBloomberg package side?

Thanks.

Regards,
Sergio

 
 
Sergio Bizzotto
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