BBN News and Press, BlackRock Taxable Municipal Bond Trust of Beneficial Interest From 05/04/20

BlackRock Taxable Municipal Bond Trust (NYSE: BBN ) declares $0.1118/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 5.84% Payable May 29; for shareholders of record May 15; ex-div May 14. See BBN Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More news o...

Before states and local governments turn to the Fed looking for a loan, the central bank wants them to first look to Wall Street. More news on: iShares National Muni Bond ETF, Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund, Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund, Financial stocks news...

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to evaluate the Taxable Municipal Bond Trust ( BBN ) as an investment option at its current market price. While munis have come under a bit of pressure over the past week, I still believe the fundamental outlook is solid enough to warrant positio...

The market has recovered quite a bit during the last couple of weeks and full 25% up from its lows on March 23. But by no means, we are out of the woods yet. However, a lot of people feel that there's some disconnect between the market action and the unprecedented economic upheaval and uncerta...

The coronavirus outbreak and the effects of COVID-19 have gone deeper and wider than most people would have expected. That applies just as much to markets as anywhere. Whether it's a tech sector that is supporting our new work from home or re-rating as expensive EV/Sales multiples make less se...

(The following is our weekly commentary published each Sunday evening to our members. This is from April 12th, 2020) Macro Picture Stocks again recorded one of their best weekly gains on record as investors saw encouraging trends in the virus spread data. The flattening of the curve is...

This article uses market data as of Monday close. Here we go again. In a stark repeat of the financial crisis era events, a number of municipal funds have begun to deleverage. At focus is the unwinding of tender option bonds - a financial structure that allows municipal funds to raise leve...

This article uses fund data as of Friday close. One of the key concepts in investing is the idea of a margin of safety which describes the difference between the intrinsic and market value of a company. In this article, we expand upon this concept and apply it to the CEF market in two wa...

The market is in full panic mode due to the unprecedented economic upheaval and uncertainties caused by the spread of Coronavirus. The market has swung more than 4% in either direction for eight consecutive sessions now, which is a record in itself. In response, the Fed and the government have...

Is now the time to buy? For the last year or so we have attempted to invest conservatively, focusing on U.S. Treasury and Agency securities, as well as very high credit quality securities in corporate bonds and asset-backed securities. We tried to stay on the sidelines of risk as much as ...