GIM News and Press, Templeton Global Income Fund Inc. From 10/31/19

By Hemant Baijal , Head of Multi-Sector Portfolio Management, Global Debt Senior Portfolio Manager; Meral Karasulu , PhD, Director of Fixed Income Research, Global Debt Team The weakness in manufacturing and trade made the global economy lose momentum, but the Global Debt Team s...

We believe one of the most attractive features of emerging markets debt, from a portfolio construction perspective, is the diversification potential it can provide. Within emerging markets debt, local currency bonds have historically provided the greatest diversification benefit compared to U....

By J. Patrick Bradley Introduction Fall is a great time to visit the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., and it also marks the time when the Institute for International Finance ((IIF)) holds its annual membership meeting, as well as the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund ...

Originally published on October 24, 2019 By Robin Marshall, Director Bond Research, Research & Analytics When Japanese interest rates first fell towards zero, the Japanese government yield curve steepened sharply as it was assumed temporary, and that interest rates and bond yields ...

It's no longer just me using terms like "Armageddon, crisis, devastating, chaos, Great Depression;" it's leaders of the world's most august and conservative central banks. The big banking squeeze that began in September never went away. In fact, repo auctions last week looked worse than ever...

Any central bank head that passes through an eight-year term without once raising rates has some explaining to do. To leave monetary policy extremely loose for such an extended period comes with major consequences (can we at least agree on that?). So, what went wrong? How did policy measures n...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We ha...

Since markets bottom on extreme pessimism, rise on a wall of worry, and peak on over-exuberance, we were pleased to read in Barron's this weekend that their fall 2019 Big Money Poll showed that only 27% of money managers were bullish, the lowest reading in more than 20 year. According to Mor...

Note: This article was released to members 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 concluded or upcoming corporate a...

Because the prevailing theory behind the global slowdown is "trade wars", most, if not all, attention is focused on China. While the correct target, everyone is coming it at from the wrong direction. The world awaits a crash in Chinese exports engineered by US tariffs. It's not happening, at...