GIM News and Press, Templeton Global Income Fund Inc. From 11/19/19

In this article we will discuss the longer-term outlook for global interest rates and in particular longer-dated bond yields (NYSE: TLT ). The main purpose of this article is not to make any predictions over the short-term but serve as guidepost for potential shifts in deep secular trends th...

Today, we want to say two things about negative interest rates. The first is really simple. Anyone who believes in a theory of interest that says "the savers demand interest to compensate for inflation" needs to ask if this explains negative interest in Switzerland, Europe, and other countries...

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time." - Wonderland So you will just have to put up with it. You are going to have a dreadful time. I am going to explain something to you, and you will just have to suffer. Of course, you can always exit out of this article ...

Closed-End Fund Analysis Closed-end funds ("CEFs") continue to chug along seeing some incremental increases in valuations (discount tightening) from already above average levels. While we don't think valuation levels are extreme here, especially given the new dovish Fed, they are not cheap e...

Henry Curr is the economics editor for The Economist magazine, and the author of a special report by the magazine on the phenomenon of low inflation now facing the global economy. Henry joins Macro Musings today to outline this report and the big questions surrounding low inflation. Dav...

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...

Here are some things I think I think about Ray Dalio's provocative piece titled "The World Has Gone Mad and The System is Broken" . So…Ray Dalio wrote a short piece that is getting A LOT of attention. It basically implies that asset prices are insanely overvalued and the markets are ...

Note: This article was released to members Oct. 18 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 ...

There is virtually nothing with yield in the public markets that exists any longer. This has all been engineered by the world's central banks as the nations they represent cannot afford their budgets or social programs. So, they turned to their central banks to make "Pixie Dust" money and then...

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...