ARDC News and Press, Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Inc. From 03/18/20

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the beginning of 2020 I said that the New Year would be nothing like the last year. Things are playing out as predicted, with Coronavirus thrown in for good measure, and with devastating co...

Note: This article was released to CEF/ETF income Laboratory members on February 21, 2020. Chemist's "Quality" Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and...

It was only Thursday when we reported high-yield as having its worst day in many years, but it's even rougher today. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, Prospect Capital Corporation, Main Street Capital, Energy stocks news, News on the U.S. economy, Stocks on the m...

We are in the middle of a bear market for risk assets, and the key question is trying to figure out what turns this around. My argument is that it is going to be very difficult to read the entrails of market chart patterns, pandemic data, and policy responses to time the bottom. However, if on...

By Tajinder Dhillon Brent oil has entered into a bear market, as prices have fallen almost $30 a barrel since the beginning of the year. Initial worries over COVID-19 caused the largest weekly decline in Brent oil prices since January 2016, having declined 13.6% during the week of February...

By Glenn Voyles, Director of Portfolio Management, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income; Bryant Dieffenbacher, Research Analyst, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income and Matt Fey, Director of Research, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Financial markets across the glo...

If I had written a commentary on how 4,000 people dying from the flu would topple global financial markets, I think I would have been deemed insane. Yet today that is exactly the story. After all, the World Health Organization estimates that influenza kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year...

Here's that iceberg that is drifting toward our economy's Titanic... and no, it ain't a virus, but it is our choice: Via: @Schuldensuehner Years of easy credit, easy money. The pile of debt from Baa to lower ratings is the real threat here, for its sustainability is heavily contingent on t...

U.S. credit markets suffer their worst day in a decade as investors worry about companies' ability to repay debt will be hurt by the spreading coronavirus. More news on: American Airlines Group Inc., ONEOK, Inc., Alkermes plc, , News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs, Read more ...

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