GIM News and Press, Templeton Global Income Fund Inc. From 08/06/19

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 information...

By Ashok Bhatia, Deputy Chief Investment Officer—Fixed Income; Olumide Owolabi, Portfolio Manager—Fixed Income As investors take temporarily weak inflation to be structural, it creates potential value in TIPS. Today's CIO Weekly Perspectives comes from guest contribut...

By Douglas J. Peebles The first half of 2019 was kind to financial markets. Will the good times keep on rolling? In our view, that will depend on whether loosening monetary policy is still an effective way to boost growth. When the year began, markets were bracing for tighter policy from...

David Beckworth: Our guest today is Ulrich Bindseil. Ulrich is currently Director General of the Directorate General Market Operations at the European Central Bank, in November, will become Director General of Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank. Ulrich has writte...

This article was first released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory subscribers 2 weeks ago, so data may be out of date. Please check the latest data before making investment decisions. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price mo...

The Fed is about to change course officially this week beginning with at least a 25-basis cut in the Funds rate. The last five times the Fed cut rates "outside of recessions-including 1984, 1987, 1989, 1995 and 1998-the S&P 500 rose an average of 11% over the subsequent six months and 16% ...

" Bankers Stunned as Negative Rates Sweep across Danish Mortgages. " Yes, this sensationalistic headline is true. Negative interest rates are available in Denmark on adjustable-rate mortgages with durations under five years. So after paying some upfront fees, borrowers on these loans recei...

This article was first released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory subscribers 2 weeks ago, so data may be out of date. Please check the latest data before making investment decisions. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price mo...

Yield curves have gone mad. Negative yields are everywhere, from AAA-rated government bonds to corporate junk . Most developed countries have inverted yield curves, and a fair few developing countries do too: (chart from worldgovernmentbonds.com) Negative yields and widespread yield c...

By Krishna Memani , Vice Chairman of Investments As the Fed unwinds previous rate hikes, don’t count on the dollar to move much I continue to believe international equities and fixed income may offer good value and diversification. However, I find it somewhat disconcertin...