HYT News and Press, Blackrock Corporate High Yield Fund Inc. From 12/01/20

CEFs may be more susceptible to tax loss selling given they trade on a stock exchange and market prices can deviate from underlying net asset values. Tax loss selling into year-end may continue to pressure CEF discounts in the short term. These wide discounts may offer long-term i...

Other than moving a few pieces around the board, the recent actions by the Fed only continues to move back the day of reckoning. The "extend and pretend illusion" our economy remains on a sound footing is alive and well. One place this is evident is in the area corporate bond mark...

The COVID-19 related sell-off in corporate bonds in Q1 2020 caused some commentators to express concern about the liquidity and functionality of fixed income ETFs, led by corporate bond ETFs. Widening discounts between corporate bond ETFs and NAV pricing after COVID-19 was cited as fu...

To review, Ackman's Pershing Square made a killing earlier this year, paying a tiny premium to purchase corporate credit protection. When the pandemic panic hit, the value of that protection soared. At roughly the same time Ackman in mid-March appeared on CNBC, more or less in tears about how...

Seeking "Alpha" means trying to do better than average (i.e. better than "Beta"); a worthy objective that, not surprisingly, less than half of all investors actually achieve. The more aggressively an investor attempts to achieve Alpha, the more they usually end up holding lower-yieldi...

Putting money to work every month can help continue to grow a strong income that grows over time. 8 funds were bought, though two of them were a swap from a different investment. 5 new positions were added to my portfolio (2 of these were from swap opportunities,) while 3 were add...

The boards of directors (the “Board”) of the BlackRock closed-end funds listed in the below table (each a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) announced that each Fund has elected to be subject to the Maryland Control Share Acquisition Act (the...

This down-cycle cannot be fully cured merely through the application of economic stimulus. Rather, the root cause has to be repaired, and that means the disease has to be brought under control. The economic recovery everyone's counting on is not an independent event, unaffected by dev...

HYT is one of my preferred ways to play high yield corporate bonds, as it has performed well over time and routinely trades at a discount to NAV. The fund's current discount is just under 5%, which is still a reasonably attractive entry point. While HYT has plenty of bullish momen...

Some market observers have suggested that low and negative yields will hinder government bonds' ability to provide a buffer against down markets because bond returns will also be low. Amid the dramatic sell-off in risk assets earlier this year as the global pandemic took hold, and aga...