CIF News and Press, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund From 03/24/21

Considering the major jump in volatility at the end of February, for our latest survey we sought an updated consensus over the managers' thoughts on the speed of economic recovery. Additionally, we asked what their inflation expectations going forward are, and whether higher rates in ...

13 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 13 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. MLPs lead while commodities lag. BSTZ/BMEZ boosts distributions by +48.7% and +45.0% respectively. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup: March 7, 2021

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released Wednesday puts the year-over-year inflation rate at 1.68%. It is below the 3.76% average since the end of the Second World War and below its 10-year moving average, now at 1.73%. Our long-term inflation charts reach bac...

For US Treasury investors, the starting place for inflation today is tough-there's not enough inflation-adjusted yield to cushion the pain. Treasury inflation-protected securities and similar inflation-linked bonds globally will outperform comparable-maturity Treasury bonds if inflati...

One of the interesting things during the period when Treasury yields were rising was that all of the risk assets were compressing against Treasuries. There is virtually no spread in any of the credit indexes that pays the buyer for the credit risk. The spreads are just off historic lo...

For credit markets, the returns just kept coming in 2020 once the Fed stepped in with its strong policy support in late March. With strong returns in the fourth quarter, both investment grade and high yield corporate markets in the U.S. ended the year with positive returns over equiva...

2 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 2 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. MLPs lead, while Asia equity lags. Some Nuveen funds increase distributions due to adoption of a level distribution policy. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundu...

Rising rates are such a problem for gold bullion that gold bullion and major gold stocks are where they were before the COVID pandemic crashed the U.S. stock market at this time last year. In other words, they have wiped out all the pandemic gains. The bid in the dollar is significant...

For investors seeking income, appreciation, or diversification benefits, fixed income strategies are core components of a well-rounded asset allocation. In particular, we are optimistic about the high yield market-and believe that the opportunities can be maximized with active, risk-c...

MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (CIF) declares $0.019630/share monthly dividend, -0.5% decrease from prior dividend of $0.01969.Forward yield 9.26%Payable March 31; for shareholders of record March 17; ex-div March 16.See CIF Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For fur...