BKT News and Press, BlackRock Income Trust Inc. From 01/11/23

Summary After enduring one of the worst years on record across asset classes, investors should find more cause for optimism in 2023, even as the global economy faces challenges. Inflation is likely to moderate, and risks to the inflation outlook appear more balanced than they did severa...

BlackRock Income Trust ( NYSE: BKT ) declares $0.0882/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 8.22% Payable Jan. 31; for shareholders of record Jan. 13; ex-div Jan. 12. See BKT Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For ...

Summary BlackRock Enhanced Government Fund is a fixed income closed-end fund. The CEF comes from the BlackRock suite but is on the small side with only a $40 mm AUM. The vehicle has roughly a 50/50 Treasuries-Agency MBS split, with 30% leverage on top. What is particular about t...

Summary DMO was a fund brought up recently that has interested me in the past, but one that I've never covered. Over the long-term, this is the best-performing mortgage fund, but other timeframes reflect mixed results. At a large discount, the fund could be more compelling than its ...

Summary Western Asset Mortgage Opportunity Fund Inc. (DMO) is a closed end fund focused on mortgages. Unlike some of its peers in the space, DMO takes on significant credit risk through its holdings. The fund is trading at a -10% discount to NAV, and has seen discounts in its pricin...

Summary After adding $1.3 trillion in MBS over the last five years, banks slashed their holdings by roughly $100 billion as of November 2022. Mortgage rates in the United States have soared in 2022, helping to cool housing demand from home buyers. Investors holding MBS pools who may...

Summary Recession is foretold, in our view, as central banks crush demand to bring down inflation. We think markets are wrong to expect them to later come to the rescue. U.S. stocks fell and the Treasury yield curve inverted its most since the early 1980s. We see recent moves as reflect...

Summary Amid the crosscurrents, two themes have prevailed during the post-pandemic years, which lend some perspective to the macroeconomic roadmap ahead: namely, the bipolar swings in macro policy and the forces of economic normalization. After one of the worst years for fixed income as...

Summary BlackRock Income Trust invests in a portfolio of government and agency securities to provide an income to its shareholders. BKT should be essentially free of default risk, which will undoubtedly appeal to anyone that is concerned with the preservation of capital. The closed-...

BlackRock Income Trust ( NYSE: BKT ) had declared $0.0882/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 8.45% Payable Nov. 30; for shareholders of record Nov. 15; ex-div Nov. 14. See BKT Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. ...