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Re:Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007 by Godel_unicode on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:07PM (#20618325)
That's not how dividends work. Dividends are related to how much profit/cash the company has, and how many shares are outstanding. The price of an individual share doesn't effect that, only issuance of new shares and changes in cash flow.
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Re:Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007 by ericd on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:33PM (#20618615)
Shares frequently crash in conjunction with economic pullbacks, which mean lower revenue/earnings for companies, which means less spending by those companies, which means lower revenue/earnings for other companies, and layoffs, which means lower earnings for workers, which means less spending, etc etc.
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Re:Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007 by Godel_unicode on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:00PM (#20618889)
Shares of individual companies also frequently crash for reasons totally unrelated to economic pullbacks, and thus none of those things are guaranteed to happen simply because a share now costs less.
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Re:Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007 by ericd on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:21PM (#20619121)
Sure, but I assume we're generally talking about index/portfolio investing here when we talk about stocks in general?
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