GIM News and Press, Templeton Global Income Fund Inc. From 02/17/21

Twenty-two out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 21 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. MLPs lead while commodities lag. Limited duration is the highest-yielding CEF sector. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup: February 7, 2021

Templeton Global Income Fund (GIM) had declared $0.0141/share monthly dividend, -12.4% decrease from prior dividend of $0.0161.Payable Feb. 26; for shareholders of record Feb. 16; ex-div Feb. 12.See GIM Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details see: ...

After a fairly calm December for global government bonds, 2021 got off to an active start with a widespread market sell-off. In Europe, the yield on Sweden's 10-year benchmark note saw the largest increase among its peers. A political crisis engulfed Italy on January 13, when Matt...

With the Bank of Israel announcing a staggering $6.8bn of FX intervention in January alone, we review some of the factors driving this activity. Look at how the theme of FX intervention will develop through the year. We suspect the new US Administration will have little tolerance ...

At WisdomTree, we think there is a unique opportunity presented in developed markets-one best accessed through a quality- and dividend growth-focused framework. In 2015, we launched the WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth Fund (IHDG), which seeks to track the Wisdo...

Central banks, the Federal Reserve in particular, have really pivoted its policy approach to let inflation, if it were to start to pick up, to let it run a little bit hotter than maybe they have in prior cycles. Each energy cycle, I think, has played a part in influencing how investor...

We are still grappling with the ravages of COVID-19, but vaccinations are being administered across the globe and should help bring confidence - and economic growth - back later in the year. Europe will almost assuredly see a double-dip recession, but that is due to lockdowns that are...

The wild swings in government bond yields that characterized most of 2020 were largely muted in December. Finland's 10-year government bond yield saw the largest movement, falling by more than 5 basis points to finish at -0.44%. Australian 10-year bond yield increased by more than...

Investors were concerned that EM countries would bog down their economies by trying to undertake developed-market-level quantitative easing. While the potential risks to EM sovereigns have dissipated, valuations for high-yield sovereigns remain the most compelling opportunities. S...

Despite suffering steeper losses in the March panic and again in the September/October correction, the Russell 1000 finished 2020 with a threefold lead over its global peers (up 21% versus 6.8%, respectively). As was the case globally, P/E multiple expansion, rather than dividend or f...