BHK News and Press, Blackrock Core Bond Trust From 03/03/18

The strength of January disappeared in February despite little negative macroeconomic news, leading many analysts to conclude that profit-taking (and to a certain extend deleveraging) was driving the sudden fall in the S&P 500 ( SPY ). And while the shot-up in the VIX drove a fascinating, ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin yesterday argued the administration's policies will boost wages without creating inflation. More news on: iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund, News on the U.S. economy, News o...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5% in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today . Over the last 12 months, 'headline' inflation rose 2.1%. The consensus estimate for January inflation was 0.3%, so this rep...

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE: BGT ) - $0.0583. BlackRock Core Bond Trust (NYSE: BHK ) - $0.0650. BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust (NYSE: BIT ) - $0.1167. BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE: BKT ) - $0.0265. BlackRock Limited Duration Income Trust (NYSE: BLW ) - $0.0795. ...

Bond market veterans are struggling to remember the last time stocks sold off 2%, and yields on the long end of the Treasury curve actually rose sharply. But just that scenario occurred on Friday. More news on: iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury ETF,...

Asian equity markets were weighed down by losses in the US markets ahead of the weekend. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index was off 1.4% after the 1.0% pre-weekend loss. The Nikkei gapped lower and shed 2.5% and has fallen in eight of the past nine sessions. The notable exception in Asia was the Sh...

There's a lot of chatter out there about rising interest rates and "normalizing" rates. As I've written about before, I think most of these fears are a case of short-termism being way overblown.¹ But I want to put things in some perspective and show you a scenario analysis of how things m...

The year has started extremely strong for stocks, so that even after the correction at the end of January, the S&P 500 ended up 5.7% YTD by the start of February. Index funds for junk bonds ( JNK ) and municipal bonds ( MUB ) did not fare as well, being flat and down 1.2% respectively: W...

This is the third posting in a series on the overall portfolio structure implied by a focus on a dividend-growth portfolio. A previous posting, “A Dividend-Growth Portfolio Isn't a Strategy; It's a Class of Assets,” ( A Dividend-Growth Portfolio Isn't A Strategy, It's A Class Of ...

Bill Gross made some headlines earlier this week when he said the official bond bear market was confirmed after the 10-year Treasury yield jumped to 2.60%. More news on: iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund, ...