Comments on: Some Signs of Economic Life http://generationyinvestor.com/2009/02/24/some-signs-of-economic-life/ Gen Y's Home for Investment Education, News & Commentary Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:33:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Encolioto http://generationyinvestor.com/2009/02/24/some-signs-of-economic-life/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Encolioto Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:53:52 +0000 http://generationyinvestor.com/?p=788#comment-101 Thank you! Thank you!

]]> By: Stephen Kline http://generationyinvestor.com/2009/02/24/some-signs-of-economic-life/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Stephen Kline Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:56:31 +0000 http://generationyinvestor.com/?p=788#comment-92 Well how I think it works is... The ETF holds a butch of stocks... in SPY's case it's all the stocks in the S&P 500. So since it holds all these stocks some of them will pay their dividends. SPY will receive these dividends and once every quarter add them up and distribute them to whoever owns the ETF. Here's SPY's dividend history... http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SPY&a=00&b=29&c=1993&d=01&e=26&f=2009&g=v Well how I think it works is… The ETF holds a butch of stocks… in SPY’s case it’s all the stocks in the S&P 500. So since it holds all these stocks some of them will pay their dividends. SPY will receive these dividends and once every quarter add them up and distribute them to whoever owns the ETF. Here’s SPY’s dividend history…

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SPY&a=00&b=29&c=1993&d=01&e=26&f=2009&g=v

]]> By: Tombo http://generationyinvestor.com/2009/02/24/some-signs-of-economic-life/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Tombo Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:50:40 +0000 http://generationyinvestor.com/?p=788#comment-91 I hope so. Steve I was wondering if you could help clear something up for me. Can you please explain how etfs pay dividends? For example, SPY has holdings in all dividend paying companies. How would these dividends be distributed? I hope so. Steve I was wondering if you could help clear something up for me. Can you please explain how etfs pay dividends? For example, SPY has holdings in all dividend paying companies. How would these dividends be distributed?

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