BFK News and Press, BlackRock Municipal Income Trust From 07/20/18

By Greg Rawls, Investment Research Analyst on Jul 18, 2018, in Fixed Income Puerto Rico's recent history of municipal bond defaults has highlighted the potential benefits of a niche part of the municipal (muni) bond market - insured municipal bonds. Insured munis accounted for 6%...

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By Patricia Healy, CFA The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), on June 27th, ruled in a 5-4 vote that government workers who choose not to join unions may not be required to help pay for collective bargaining and other union endeavors. Bloomberg estimates that this ruling will aff...

We're about nine years into the economic recovery following the Great Recession. It's been an extraordinarily profitable period for the stock market- one of the best in U.S. history - and I hope you've participated. But every bull market ends with a bear market, and while no one knows for su...

By John R. Mousseau, CFA, President and Chief Executive Officer, Director of Fixed Income The tax-free bond market has continued to benefit from the drop in supply so far in 2018. To recap, the end of 2017 saw a bulge in supply as issuers tried to beat the tax cut bill that Congress was st...

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Increasing healthcare costs and retirement rates will exert pressure on U.S. state and local government budgets, Fitch Ratings says . More news on: iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond ETF, Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Income Fund, Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund, News...

By Catherine Stienstra As we kick off the historically positive summer months for the muni market, investors could see higher returns - but may have a hard time finding bonds. The passage of Memorial Day has officially ushered in summer: the season of backyard barbecues, pool parties...