BKLN News and Press, Invesco Senior Loan From 04/17/20

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...

After experiencing extreme declines, the high yield credit market has nearly returned to all-time highs. This has largely been due to immense central bank stimulus, as detailed in the article " SLQD: Taking A Closer Look At The Federal Reserve Backstop ". One fund that experienced an extreme...

The new Fed balance sheet winning number is $6.08 trillion! But the truly winning lottery ticket was US high-yield ("HY") aka junk, bonds. These lower-rated types of debts, as the Fed fired another $2.3 trillion bazooka, expanding its asset shopping list to also include junk bonds (for the f...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, regulators have been preventing banks from taking on extreme leverage that almost toppled the industry. More news on: Citigroup Inc., Truist Financial Corporation, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, Read more ...

Big Picture Thesis Even as Americans have come to terms with the idea that the economic shutdown will have to last longer than we initially thought in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, investors continue to widely expect a V-shaped recovery. Once the all-clear is sounded, goes this view,...

Moody's Investors Service has lowered its outlook on U.S. corporate debt from stable to negative, saying that a coronavirus recession will result in rising default rates. More news on: Oxford Lane Capital, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, Ne...

(Posted originally at the end of 3/25 trading day) It feels good to see stocks going up 10.64% over just two trading days, right? Based on closing levels of 2,475.56 on 3/25 and 2,237.40 on 3/23. As a matter of fact, we're talking about a rise of no less than 17.33% for the S&P 5...

"May you live in interesting times" is an English expression which purports to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse. While seemingly a blessing, the expression is normally used ironically; life is better in "uninteresting times" of peace and tranquility than in "interesting" ones...

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 ...

Note: This article was first published on Macro Trading Factory ("MTF") and Wheel of Fortune ("WoF") with regard to the Funds Macro Portfolio ("FMP"). Prologue When we published the first part of this "I don't trust this market" series, it was four days after subscribers received it....