SPY dividend for 4th quarter 2010

SPY went ex-dividend December 17th, 2010.  The payout will be $0.6528 per share.  The paydate will be 31-January-2011. In premarket on the 17th SPY was trading around 124.17, after closing at 124.82 in regular trading Thursday.  It looks like some poor soul had a buy order in at 124.74 that filled in the pre-market—ex-dividend day drops at the beginning of trading are one of the …

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SPY ex-dividend

For updated information about SPY’s ex-dividend and payout dates see this post.

What about 2011—will it be a replay of 2005?

Since November 2009 I have been noting that the S&P500 (represented here by SPY) has been closely retracing the path that it followed in 2003 and 2004.  Now that 2010 is drawing to a close, I took a look back at 2005 to get one vision (hallucination?) of what lies ahead for 2011.  My updated graph showing SPY, normalized SPY volume and VIX over those …

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