BKT News and Press, BlackRock Income Trust Inc. From 02/05/19

Yesterday, I asked the question, “ Which is Right? The Bond Market or the Stock Market? .” Prices in both markets had been rising over the past month, or two, or three. This is not the usual situation, so it was natural to raise the question about which market is right about ...

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust (NYSE: BST ) - $0.1500. 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 ) - ...

The euphoria that carried the stock market to an 8% gain in January all but erased the pessimism that led to one of the worst December's on record, when the S&P 500 ( SPY ) fell nearly 9%. Net, over the past two months, there has been a lot of chop, volatility and constantly shifting narr...

Prices in the bond market and in the stock market have been traveling in the same direction. This is not the pattern one might expect. Looking at the bond market first, bond prices have been rising for the past three months. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note hit 3.25 percent on Nove...

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below. * In order to comply with the requirements of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, each of the Funds noted above posted to the DTC bulletin board and s...

A reliable source for recession forecasting is the unemployment rate, which can provide signals for the beginning and end of recessions (Appendix B charts the UER recession indicator for the period 1948 to 2015). The unemployment rate model ( article link ) updated with the January 2019 rate...

What the Fed did and said Wednesday Facts first, interpretation second, trading and investing thoughts last. Here is the key part of what the Federal Open Market Committee's statement said Wednesday: ...the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 2...

The outlook for gold continues to brighten now that it no longer has to compete with higher interest rates. In today’s report, we’ll discuss the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate statement and its impact on the bullion price. We’ll also examine gold’s ...

The BCI at 243.9 is below above last week's 244.7, and remains below this business cycle’s peak as indicated by the BCIp at 57.0. However, the 6-month smoothed annualized growth BCIg at 5.6 is above last week’s 5.4. Both BCIp and BCIg are not signaling a recession. (BCIp needs ...

During most of 2018, as the stock market seemingly drifted higher each day, equity bulls were empowered to make renewed calls for the end of the bond bull market that has been ongoing since the 1980's when the 30-year Treasury rate was north of 15%. There were also several name notable invest...