JLS News and Press, Nuveen Mortgage Opportunity Term Fund From 02/25/24

2024-02-25 11:52:00 ET Summary Investment-grade CDS traded down to 51 bps Thursday, the low back to December 31, 2021. High yield CDS sank to 336 bps, the low since February 1, 2022. Nvidia added $155 billion of market capitalization (reaching $2 TN), as stocks surged further into...

2024-02-24 00:45:00 ET Summary 2023 was a challenging year with a few drivers of volatility in the fixed income markets, some of which were not traditional. Given the slowdown in growth, the economy is at a point where central banks can start to think about shifting away from rest...

2024-02-23 08:40:00 ET Summary Recently, the percentage of past-due loans to riskier borrowers has begun to flatten, and prepayment rates for sub-prime and near-prime borrowers have fallen to nearly half their pre-pandemic levels. The percentage of newer sub-prime and near-prime l...

2024-02-23 00:50:00 ET Summary Given its high sensitivity to interest rates, the commercial real estate sector came under pressure from the rapid and precipitous rise in rates. The commercial real estate market’s impending demise has been well-documented, with headline risk...

2024-02-16 01:35:00 ET Summary After a difficult period, commercial mortgage-backed securities are benefiting from a more favorable macro backdrop and improved sentiment. Coming into 2024, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) were among the most dislocated sectors in fixed...

2024-02-12 22:30:00 ET Summary Spreads are tight and volatility is low for widely accepted reasons. The securitized-products opportunity set is broadening and diversifying still further. Fixed income investors are understandably focused on central bank policy at the moment. ...

2024-02-08 23:02:28 ET Summary For the first month in three, equity CEFs (-0.59% on a NAV basis) suffered losses while their fixed-income CEF (+0.49%) counterparts on average posted plus-side returns. At month-end, 11% of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV, with 12% of equi...

2024-02-08 02:29:37 ET Summary The price action in the CEF market over the last few months has been fast and furious. We revisit the key decision factors of income investing that can streamline and organize the allocation process as applied to CEFs. We focus on three macro and...

2024-02-07 08:04:00 ET Summary Sluggish out of the gates. Negative on the negative convexity. Supply glimpse offers insight into prepays. By Albert Durso, Senior RMBS/CMBS Strategist, Analytics, LSEG Data & Analytics January flops as rates trend highe...

2024-01-19 01:00:00 ET Summary The commercial real estate sector has been under intense pressure globally as interest rates have risen over the past couple of years. In the US, with the largest commercial property market in the world, prices have tumbled by 11 percent since the Fe...