GIM News and Press, Templeton Global Income Fund Inc. From 08/25/19

Trump and his team just don't get it! It's their trade policy that is responsible for grinding global growth to a halt. Can you imagine business-planning: capital spending, hiring, and the like, when a tweet could change the environment in a second? Managing money is impacted by Trump's twee...

"The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) There is no question really that we are slipping further and further down the rabbit hole. The amount of negative yielding bonds was $12.2 trillion in 2016. A few weeks ago we had $13 trillion of the...

Negative yields may be taking their toll on investor demand, as the world's first 30-year bond offering a zero coupon struggled to find buyers. More news on: Vanguard Total International Bond ETF, Templeton Global Income Fund, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays International Treasury Bond ETF, Global...

The "risk-off" mood in global markets deepened last week - as global government bond yields plunged to historical lows and the inversion of part of the U.S. Treasury curve sparked recession fears. Perceived safe haven assets such as gold rallied. We still see limited near-term recession risks ...

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...

Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it You click a keystroke 1-2-3 That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and your checks for free Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb Maybe get a blister on your little...

There are now more than $13 trillion worth of negative-yielding bonds in the global market. Just the idea of it runs counter to logic, and yet, the amount continues to grow. Two questions that we get often from investors are, "How did we get here?" and "Could it happen in the United State...

By James Smith , Developed Markets Economist A 'no-deal' Brexit has undoubtedly become more likely in recent days - the EU is unlikely to offer anything big, and Parliament faces an uphill battle to stop a prime minister set on exiting without a deal. But even so, an election looks ...

"Bond markets are sending one big global recession warning" You have to be kidding me! This headline from CNBC greeted me this morning and appears to give us a significant reason for the Dow Jones, S&P and Nasdaq indices suffering a sharp decline today. It is just one more instance o...

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...