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SPDR is an US-based exchange-traded fund which is specifically linked to the S&P 500. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Exchange-traded funds (or ETFs) are open-ended collective investment schemes, traded as shares on most global stock exchanges. ...
The ticker is SPY.
Shares of the fund are often called 'Spiders'.
The acronym stands for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipt. See S&P 500. The S&P 500 is a list of 500 US corporations, ordered by market capitalization. ...
SPDR (an abbreviation of System Peril Distributed Reflex) is also the name given to one of the AIs in the alternate reality game The Haunted Apiary (aka I Love Bees). The Haunted Apiary (also known as I Love Bees or ILB for short) was an alternate reality game (ARG) that served as a viral marketing campaign for the Halo 2 video game. ...
Select Sector SPDRs are unique ETF's that divide the S&P 500 into 9 sectors.
Select Sector SPDRs offer the all-day tradability of stocks, the diversity of mutual funds and the tracking of an index.
Their composition and weighting may differ from that in any similar index published by S&P. ALPS Distributors, Inc., a registered broker-dealer, is the distributor for the Select Sector SPDR Trust.
SPDR (or The Widow, as The Sleeping Princess calls her) was a program designed to protect the AI Melissa in times of peril.
SPDR herself was not too intelligent, as her only function was to repair her mistress.
While not understood completely at the time it arrived, SPDR's warning specified the nature of her presence, the countdowns to certain points in the repair process, and, more importantly, the countdown to "Wide awake and physical" on August 24, which started the axon situation and the true beginning to the ARG.