GGM News and Press, Guggenheim Credit Allocation Fund of Beneficial Interest From 03/26/20

As we roll through 2020, it is quite evident that we are all having an out of time, and space, and experience, moment. It is a medical crisis leading to a health crisis enlarging into an economic crisis and they are all three happening simultaneously. Each crisis founded upon the shoulders of ...

We’ve been in such a raging bear market (the fastest decline of the S&P 500 ( SPY ) ever) that there has been barely any time to sit back and let everything sink in. Every day there are opportunities to evaluate and new threats emerge. But over the past several days I’v...

The credit market will be pivotal during the current crisis. In 2008, we had a problem in the credit market (Subprime mortgages), which made financial institutions move into credit tightening mode. Soon, that start cascading into the real economy. The current environment inverts that relation...

Everyone Wanting To Buy Suggests The Bear Still Prowls "If you own 10% equities, as we do, and the market falls 100%, you will lose 10%. That said, you have 90 cents on the dollar to buy equities for free." - Michael Lebowitz Let me explain his comment. Last week, we wrote a...

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the beginning of 2020 I said that the New Year would be nothing like the last year. Things are playing out as predicted, with Coronavirus thrown in for good measure, and with devastating co...

We are in the middle of a bear market for risk assets, and the key question is trying to figure out what turns this around. My argument is that it is going to be very difficult to read the entrails of market chart patterns, pandemic data, and policy responses to time the bottom. However, if on...

By Tajinder Dhillon Brent oil has entered into a bear market, as prices have fallen almost $30 a barrel since the beginning of the year. Initial worries over COVID-19 caused the largest weekly decline in Brent oil prices since January 2016, having declined 13.6% during the week of February...

By Glenn Voyles, Director of Portfolio Management, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income; Bryant Dieffenbacher, Research Analyst, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income and Matt Fey, Director of Research, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Financial markets across the glo...

If I had written a commentary on how 4,000 people dying from the flu would topple global financial markets, I think I would have been deemed insane. Yet today that is exactly the story. After all, the World Health Organization estimates that influenza kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year...

Here's that iceberg that is drifting toward our economy's Titanic... and no, it ain't a virus, but it is our choice: Via: @Schuldensuehner Years of easy credit, easy money. The pile of debt from Baa to lower ratings is the real threat here, for its sustainability is heavily contingent on t...