BIT News and Press, BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust of Beneficial Interest From 02/04/19

Welcome to my January update for my Green Dot Portfolio, a small self-managed retirement portfolio created in a Roth IRA trading account. January was the third month of my second year of my portfolio, and it was overall my most profitable, not only for year two but also since portfolio incep...

The theory behind launching a "Widows & Orphans" version of our Savvy Senior Income Factory™ last year ( link here ) was that some investors might be attracted to our overall "gimme the cash" strategy, but would prefer a slightly lower risk/reward profile. Instead of attempting to...

The data in this report came from CEFConnect, CEFdata.com, and CEFA on the week of December 30th. Stocks turned out some decent sized gains for the week but not without some fairly remarkable volatility. The week started off poorly with the worst Christmas eve going back to the 1930s pushi...

2018 in Review As I wrote almost two weeks ago, 2018 was a bit of a nail-biter for many reasons: geopolitical, economic and financial. ( Here's the link .) I won't repeat all the reasons why I believe it was a "perfect storm" for creating the sort of stress and angst that caused many investo...

The BlackRock registered closed-end funds (each a "Fund" and collectively, the "Funds") announced today that Henry Gabbay will become an independent director/trustee of each Fund on January 1, 2019. Mr. Gabbay will stand for election at the 2019 annual shareholder meeting for each Fund liste...

Global bond markets experienced their best month in more than a year this month as concerns about slower global economic growth convinced investors to head for relatively safe assets. More news on: PIMCO Dynamic Credit Income Fund, PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund, PIMCO Corporate&Income St...

BlackRock Build America Bond Trust (NYSE: BBN ) - $0.1188. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE: BGT ) - $0.0618. BlackRock Core Bond Trust (NYSE: BHK ) - $0.0650. BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust (NYSE: BIT ) - $0.1167. BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE: BKT ) - $0.0344. Black...

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below. In addition, BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE:BGT) and BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund, Inc (NYSE:FRA) declared special distributions. Taxable Munici...

BlackRock Build America Bond Trust (NYSE: BBN ) - $0.1188. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE: BGT ) - $0.0618. BlackRock Core Bond Trust (NYSE: BHK ) - $0.0650. BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust (NYSE: BIT ) - $0.1167. BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE: BKT ) - $0.0344. Black...

By Erin Bigley Transcript We always talk about investing globally within the bond market. And one of the concerns that our investors have today is that as they look around to the global bond market, they see very low yields everywhere - aside from the United States, where yields hav...