They'll tell someone, hurry up and buy this stock because it's going to go ex-dividend.

他们告诉买家,迅速买入这支股票,因为它马上要除息了

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The answer is generally not because if you buy the stock before it goes ex-dividend, you get--you have to pay a higher price, but you get the dividend.

答案一般来说是不用,如果你买了股票,是在除息之前买的,你的买入价高,但能分到红

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Some of these are still listed on The New York Stock Exchange page; on the day that a stock goes ex-dividend, they'll have a little "x" by its price.

有些还在纽约证交所的网页上,股票除息的那一天,股价前面会有个小小的"x"标记

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