Efa

Well ok, but the biggest world index drop that I see is currently 0.4% (I'm probably not viewing them all, but I'm viewing at least the top ten world indexes), but EFA is down 1.8%.

And as I said before, it has no dividend, so why is it down so much?

Thanks for your responses,
+-*/ Math_Wiz



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EFA is not representative of US indexes. It is representative of Europe, Australia, and the far east.
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iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund seek investment results that, before expenses, generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the MSCI EAFE Index
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Why would you say there is no dividend when it mentions YIELD?
 
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Well ok, but the biggest world index drop that I see is currently 0.4% (I'm probably not viewing them all, but I'm viewing at least the top ten world indexes), but EFA is down 1.8%.

And as I said before, it has no dividend, so why is it down so much?

Thanks for your responses,
+-*/ Math_Wiz
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Most of the ETFS do pay a dividend. Go to the website which deals with these ETFs, its all listed there. Same people were questioning the Proshare ETFs yesterday.
 
Oh sorry, was looking here at Dividend information

http://research.investopedia.com/q.aspx?s=EFA

For dividend it said "n/a" which made me think there was no dividend. But right under that it says "Dividend yield 1.5%" which I missed at first glance.

Wow, so $1.53 dividend today. Is that quarterly or yearly? Maybe it's a one-time dividend or something? It appears to be 2% of the stock price, but they claim the dividend yield is only 1.5%. Hmmm. I guess I don't understand that.

Any answers? Why is the dividend 2% of the stock price but the "dividend yield" is only 1.5%? And is the dividend yearly or quarterly? If the dividend is quarterly, that means they would give out close to 8% per year! So that must not be right, lol.

Thanks again all,
+-*/ Math_Wiz
 
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