MCR News and Press, MFS Charter Income Trust From 03/01/21

Broadly-defined commodities were the clear leader last month. US and foreign stocks also posted solid gains as did real estate investment trusts. The overall trend for markets was bullish last month, based on the Global Market Index (GMI). For further details see: Major ...

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

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...

MFS Charter Income Trust (MCR) declares $0.05936/share monthly dividend, -0.2% decrease from prior dividend of $0.05953.Forward yield 8.09%Payable Feb. 26; for shareholders of record Feb. 17; ex-div Feb. 16.See MCR Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details ...

Stocks in emerging markets continued to lead the major asset classes in January as the top monthly performer. Emerging markets shares have been up for four straight months, pushing this slice of the world's equities to a wide one-year lead of nearly 28%. US stocks are posting the ...

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...

MFS Charter Income Trust (MCR) declares $0.05935/share monthly dividend, 0.8% increase from prior dividend of $0.05902.Forward yield 8.23%Payable Jan. 29; for shareholders of record Jan. 20; ex-div Jan. 19.See MCR Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details s...

Asset valuations, in themselves, cannot tell us when bubbles will burst, but they suggest when we are witnessing them and the depth of liquidation coming on the other side. Today, equities, corporate and many sovereign bonds (and the funds and ETFs that hold them) are more extremely p...

23 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 22 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. Rally continues for the fifth week; MLPs lead again. DSL cuts distribution. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup: December 6, 2020

22 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 21 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. Rally continues for the fourth week as MLPs lead the way. DSL announces distribution cut, discussed in a separate report for members. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End...