High yield $ account interest is coming down. It’s down 25% already. This will continue until there is no alternative (TINA) And all of the $ piles into stocks looking for upside and div yield. the jet is ready for takeoff, but it hasn’t even started down the runway yet.
No you're 100% right. The payout date means nothing. The ex div is when the price corrects for the dividend. If it goes red on payout date, it's not correlated