BKT News and Press, BlackRock Income Trust Inc. From 06/25/20

Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on June 16, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-...

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to evaluate the BlackRock Income Trust ( BKT ) as an investment option at its current market price. Mortgage debt came under pressure doing the March sell-off and remains in a tenuous position to this day. When MBS prices have rebounded and the Fe...

Author's note: This article was initially released on May 15, 2020 and data are from that date. Please check latest data before investing. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end ...

(This is our Weekly Commentary from May 3. All data is from that date. We send out our Weekly Commentaries every Sunday evening). Macro Picture Equities ended the week mixed although the last two days were fairly weak, ending on a dour note. There's clearly a tug of war going on as inves...

Warren Buffett recently admitted he had lost $50 billion during the pandemic. If Buffett can be so open about how the stock market has treated him as of late, it is time for me to man up and look at my portfolio. Back in November, I had decided the market was overextended and due a major corre...

(This report was published on April 29 to members of Yield Hunting. All data herein is from that date except the commentary in the update near the end.) Both Blackrock and Nuveen have reported their UNII and coverage data for March. The data is a bit different as the Nuveen muni CEFs sho...

Editors' Note: This is the transcript of the video we posted last Wednesday. Please note that due to time and audio constraints, transcription may not be perfect. We encourage you to listen to the video as well as a combined podcast featuring two other interviews along with this one, embedd...

by Daniel Shvartsman We've taken to calling the fiscal and monetary plans to deal with the coronavirus shutdown as stimulus. But as Nick Gomez, who writes as ANG Traders and runs Away From The Herd on the Marketplace, makes clear, this isn't a stimulus plan, it's a way to fill an econo...

Editors' Note: This is the transcript of the video we posted yesterday. Please note that due to time and audio constraints, transcription may not be perfect. We encourage you to listen to the video as well as a combined podcast featuring two other interviews along with this one, embedded be...

by Daniel Shvartsman We continue our Coronavirus Roundtable series of speaking with Marketplace authors about the current market by talking with Michael Gayed of The Lead-Lag Report . Gayed, also the portfolio manager for the ATAC Rotation Fund ( ATACX ), is a believer in a tactical app...