According to Standard & Poor's, the S&P 500 (Index: SPX) paid out the equivalent of $14.24 in cash dividends per share during the second quarter of 2019. Since we recently featured a chart showing what dividend futures were predicting for the quarter, we thought it might be interesting to update it with S&P's official total for the quarter.
At first glance, it looks like there is a pretty large discrepancy between what the CME Group's and IndexArb's quarterly dividend futures for 2019-Q2 were forecasting, but this difference is mainly attributable to what