Investors are holding these stocks hostage — weighing down their prices (and the value of those stock options) until they pay a dividend.

投资者“劫持”这些股票——压低它们的股价(和股票期权价格)，迫使公司派息。

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Under the framework of equivalent martingale measures, we discuss the pricing formulas of power payoffs European options with continuous dividend at the time of maturity of the options.

在等价鞅测度框架下，讨论了在期权到期时刻具有连续红利支付的幂型股票欧式期权的定价公式。

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This happens because a dividend comes out of the stock price, so you would look to the January options as the December would very likely be expired before the dividend is paid.

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Its other options for raising money include cutting its dividend - possibly when its results are published on 19 May - selling assets or demerging assets and putting some of the debts in these demerged assets.

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After all, what are the other options for obtaining a 4.88% dividend yield backed by one of the most well-balanced (diversified revenue streams) on the planet.

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