BFK News and Press, BlackRock Municipal Income Trust From 04/09/18

Author's note : This article was published for members of the Cambridge Income Laboratory on March 26. The Weekly CEF Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight re...

The dichotomy between views from interest rate managers and credit managers continues. In our latest fixed income survey 1 , rates managers have blinked first. This quarter's survey closed right before the February market sell-off, thus managers did not have the benefit of hindsight with r...

The Weekly CEF Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information has been sou...

The State of Connecticut issued $620M in 10-year bonds at 3.39%, which is 93 bps above AAA Munis. More news on: iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond ETF, Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Income Fund, Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs,...

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The Weekly CEF Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information has been so...

The Weekly CEF Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information has been so...

The Hill newspaper reports that: Congress is scrambling to avoid its third government shutdown of the year as lawmakers slog through negotiations ahead of next week's deadline. Republicans had hoped to buy themselves some extra time by having the House vote on a mammoth funding bill this we...

BlackRock says it maybe a good time to pick up municipal securities on the cheap, amid a temporary up tick in supply. More news on: iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond ETF, Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Income Fund, Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund, News on ETFs, Rea...

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