BTA News and Press, BlackRock Long-Term Municipal Advantage Trust of Beneficial Interest From 04/06/20

In contrast to Morgan Stanley strategist Mike Wilson's recommendation to start buying stocks, Guggenheim CIO Scott Minerd is waiting for the other shoe to drop in equity markets. More news on: Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF, iSh...

Author's note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on Feb. 24, 2020. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight re...

Introduction Over the past year, the municipal bonds showed a very strong performance, and they managed to increase their prices significantly. The end of the year is a fact, and it is very interesting to see what will be the performance of the sector in 2020. Of course, the policy of the ...

Introduction It has been a challenging year for the global economy in 2019, and 2020 is not shaping up to be much, if any, easier. We project global GDP growth will be 3.0% this year, which would be the slowest pace of growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009. For 2020, we do no...

Note: This report was released to members 2 weeks ago. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund ((CEF)) sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate ac...

BlackRock CEFs renew share repurchase programs In this week's Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup, we noted that BlackRock announced the renewal of share purchases in its closed-end fund line-up. According to the press release : Certain BlackRock Closed-End Funds Announce Renewal of S...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Boards of Directors/Trustees of sixty four BlackRock municipal, taxable fixed-income, and equity closed-end funds (the “Funds”) have authorized the renewal of open market share repurchase programs (the “Repurchase Programs&...

The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information...

This article was first released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory subscribers one month ago, so data may be out of date. Please check the latest data before making investment decisions. Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus cl...

This article was originally published a few weeks ago, so some metrics may be out of date, in particular, fund discounts have since tightened and yields have compressed. Municipal CEF investors find themselves at the intersection of two market trends - first, a strong run-up has resulted i...