GGM News and Press, Guggenheim Credit Allocation Fund of Beneficial Interest From 06/01/20

Make no mistake in your thinking. Both the bond and the equity markets are being led by the Fed. We are in a time, because of the pandemic, when both Congress and the Fed are doing whatever they think is necessary to get the American economy back on track. The Congress is tossing money up into...

First off, a quick "hat-tip" or shout-out to Nicholas Colas and Jessica Rabe at DataTrek Research, who have been posting similar FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis) charts on the US corporate credit markets. After seeing DataTrek's credit spreads charts over the last few weeks, I went to F...

Even in good times, it's not unusual for companies clinging to the bottom rung of the investment-grade ladder to become fallen angels. Yet concerns surrounding fallen angels are especially pronounced today, and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic and concurrent oil crash. During th...

By Michael D. Hyman CIO, Global Investment Grade and Emerging Markets Invesco Fixed Income ; Matt Brill, Senior Portfolio Manager Senior Portfolio Manager ; Steven Thompson, Senior Client Portfolio Manager The central bank’s actions should support liquidity and ...

With the sound of the Munchkins ringing in my head, and the image of Judy Garland skipping along, I am reminded of all of this, when I look at what the Fed is now doing. They have expanded their borders past anything that we have seen before, in a further effort to combat our coronavirus pande...

We are in a precarious situation. We are in the midst of a serious financial crisis caused by a serious medical crisis. I believe it is accurate to say that we have never been in a crisis, quite like this one, before. The faint of heart will panic. Speculators will rush through the door, in ...

By Susan Hutman and Robert Hopper The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across economies and markets. A wave of rating downgrades, fallen angels and corporate bond defaults has begun - and it could grow into a tsunami before the pandemic recedes. But that doesn't mean invest...

“The First Cut Is the Deepest” In 1967, a little-known English singer of Greek origin, Steven Demetre Georgiou, released his second album, “New Masters,” under the pseudonym Cat Stevens. This album included 12 songs, among which the most famous is “The Fi...

NEW YORK, May 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Guggenheim Investments today announced that certain closed-end funds have declared their distributions. The table below summarizes the distribution schedule for each closed-end fund (collectively, the “Funds” and each, a “Fund&...

Source: Allenrsmith.com "Putting lipstick on a pig" is an old saying popularized during an Obama campaign event in which he said "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." And that was the first thing that came to mind when the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced it umpteenth Bazoo...