GIM News and Press, Templeton Global Income Fund Inc. From 04/02/19

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart." - Hunter S. Thompson Looking at the return of the "D" trade, "D" for "Deflation" that is with the return of the strong "bid" for bonds...

The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund ((CEF)) sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the informati...

MMTers tend to back the permanent zero interest rate idea. E.g. Warren Mosler (and Matthew Forstater) wrote a paper entitled "The Natural Rate of Interest is Zero." Milton Friedman also said he couldn't see the point of interest-yielding government debt (see his para starting "Under the pr...

By Frank Shostak Currently, we can observe a general slowdown in the annual growth rate in price inflation across major countries around the world. For instance, the yearly growth rate of the US consumer price index ((CPI)) fell to 1.5% in February from 1.6% in January and 2.2% in February...

With the German 10-year bunds closing last week with a yield of negative 0.03%, talk of yield curve inversion and a global recession is rampant as some short-term interest rates in the U.S. are now drifting above the 10-year Treasury yield. Still, the classic 2-10 spread, or t...

This is really getting out of hand. For the fourth day in a row, unofficially, Effective Federal Funds, or EFF, remains above IOER. At the same, now the 10-year UST yields less. What was last week pretty concerning stuff before the Fed's capitulation is this week whatever category lies below. ...

This article was first released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory subscribers 2 weeks ago. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concl...

By Jenna Barnard, CFA Jenna Barnard, Co-Head of Strategic Fixed Income, shares her latest views on the bond market, explaining what she sees as possibly the early innings for an intermediate, cyclical, sovereign bond bull market. Transcript Jenna Barnard : It is Thursday, the 14th of ...

Posted by Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on Mar 18, 2019, in Market & Economic Weekly Market Compass: Instead of attacking central banks, some politicians want to use them as a policy tool The United States has always had a difficult, complicated relation...

When it comes to superheroes there is only one thing that matters: Either you have the ability to save the world and crush all comers via some extraordinary superpower or everyone must believe you do and not challenge it. Yet, as we all know, there comes a time when bluster just won't cut it...