BYM News and Press, Blackrock Municipal Income Quality Trust of Beneficial Interest From 12/04/18

BlackRock Municipal Bond Trust (NYSE: BBK ) - $0.000153 (LTCG $0.047174). BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust (NYSE: BYM ) - $0.012637. BlackRock MuniEnhanced Fund (NYSE: MEN ) - $0.000160 ($0.004955). BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (NYSE: MUC ) - $0.000039 ($0.009...

By Patricia Healy, CFA Today's municipal bond market is anything but "sleepy," as Spencer Jakab characterized it in his Wall Street Journal article, "Prophet of Muni Market Doom Wasn't Wrong, Just Early" (10/26/2018). The Prophet of Doom he referred to was Meredith Whitney, who shortly b...

A number of BlackRock (NYSE: BLK ) municipal closed end funds are starting open market share repurchase programs for up to 5% of their outstanding common shares through the end of the month. More news on: BlackRock, Inc., BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust, BlackRock Investment ...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Boards of Directors/Trustees of the below BlackRock municipal closed-end funds (the “Funds”) have authorized open market share repurchase programs (the “Repurchase Programs”) pursuant to which each Fund may repurcha...

The investment grade segment of the tax-exempt US municipal bond market differentiates itself from other US fixed-rate bond markets by typically trading to a spread to a AAA municipal bond yield curve that is created by amalgamating market color from the primary and secondary markets' trading ...

By John R. Mousseau, CFA Here's our first take after the midterm elections. The polls actually got it right, with the Democrats taking the House of Representatives and the Republicans enjoying a slight pickup in the Senate. Divided government, with different parties in control of the H...

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BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust (NYSE: BYM ) - $0.0520. BlackRock Municipal Income Investment Quality Trust (NYSE: BAF ) - $0.0585. BlackRock Long-Term Municipal Advantage Trust (NYSE: BTA ) - $0.0545. BlackRock Muni Intermediate Duration Fund (NYSE: MUI ) - $0.0445. BlackRo...

Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Taxable Municipal Fund: Taxable Funds: Equity Funds: * In order to comply with the requirements of Section 19 of the Investment Company...

The current U.S. economic expansion is now the second-longest in the postwar era, and while it may have more room to run, we believe a recession is likely over the three- to five-year horizon. As U.S. taxpayers think about positioning their portfolios, we see three key reasons why the tax-ex...