BYM News and Press, Blackrock Municipal Income Quality Trust of Beneficial Interest From 07/28/18

By Ted Vogel, Portfolio Specialist, Municipal Fixed Income "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington Concerns over brisk economic growth, potential trade wars and increased inflation put upward pressure on bond yields during the second quarter. In ad...

By Randy L. Gross, Senior Portfolio Manager, Municipal Fixed Income "I'm glad it's finally hot enough to complain how hot it is." - Anonymous The months of July and August in the municipal bond market could be affectionately known as the "Summer of Investable Cash." These two months ...

By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Director of Research Last week's "Behind the Markets" podcast featured a discussion with John Apruzzese, CIO of Evercore Wealth Management, and Julian Brigden of MI2 Partners. Apruzzese wrote an interesting paper on a global valuation model he uses that takes the...

By Greg Rawls, Investment Research Analyst on Jul 18, 2018, in Fixed Income Puerto Rico's recent history of municipal bond defaults has highlighted the potential benefits of a niche part of the municipal (muni) bond market - insured municipal bonds. Insured munis accounted for 6%...

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By Patricia Healy, CFA The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), on June 27th, ruled in a 5-4 vote that government workers who choose not to join unions may not be required to help pay for collective bargaining and other union endeavors. Bloomberg estimates that this ruling will aff...

We're about nine years into the economic recovery following the Great Recession. It's been an extraordinarily profitable period for the stock market- one of the best in U.S. history - and I hope you've participated. But every bull market ends with a bear market, and while no one knows for su...

By John R. Mousseau, CFA, President and Chief Executive Officer, Director of Fixed Income The tax-free bond market has continued to benefit from the drop in supply so far in 2018. To recap, the end of 2017 saw a bulge in supply as issuers tried to beat the tax cut bill that Congress was st...