BKT News and Press, BlackRock Income Trust Inc. From 07/06/19

With the trade war in full swing and the USA attacking many of its trading partners over perceived unfairness in trade relationships, what would happen if Brazil dumped its considerable holding of Treasuries into the secondary market or chose not to buy any more Treasuries and let the remainde...

On the heels of the Osaka trade truce struck between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping over the weekend, investors got the relief rally they were looking for on Monday. Gains were especially pronounced in tech and chip stocks, which surged thanks to the Trump administration's softer approach to the ...

BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE: BKT ) declares $0.0344/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 6.82% Payable July 31; for shareholders of record July 15; ex-div July 12. See BKT Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More news on: BlackRock ...

On Wednesday, Goldman slashed their G10 yield forecasts for 2019 and the revisions were pretty dramatic . For instance, the bank now sees 10-year German yields at -0.55% by year-end and 10-year JGB yields at -0.30%. The bank's outlook is well below market forwards. To a certain extent, ...

Introduction For this article, I chose one Mutual Fund or Closed End Fund per 83 Lipper Categories using Mutual Fund Observer that have been in existence for more than 20 years based on risk and performance ratings, and risk-adjusted returns (Martin Ratio). I broke out the time periods based...

The 10-year Treasury rate has fallen below 2.0% for the first time since November 2016, blowing through the bearish reasons to "short" bonds at the last "blow-off" top. As I have outlined in many of my past research notes, the driving factors behind US Treasury rates are credit risk, ...

QE trade "animal spirits" were back with a vengeance on Thursday, following yet another dovish surprise from the Fed. Let me just say, right off the bat, that there is no "Cliffs Notes" version of this. I'm going to hit the high points for readers on this platform, but it isn't possible to ...

Earlier this year, I penned a research note detailing a data-driven approach to measuring recession risk. You can read that note from February by clicking here . In that note, which you should read prior to this note if you have not done so, I outline the official definition of a recessi...

On Tuesday, just after 4:00 AM in New York, Mario Draghi delivered a series of remarks at the ECB's annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, that sent bond yields and the euro tumbling. If you want to hear it directly from Draghi, you can watch the video here . Draghi's comments were, to a certain...

When the market falls in the trap of wishful thinking History warns us about not confusing what is true versus what we wish to be true , as Ray Dalio identified in his book Principles. Yet wishful thinking - the attribution of reality to what one wants to believe - is one of the most co...