NMCO News and Press, Nuveen Municipal Credit Opportunities Fund From 12/07/21

For the second month in three, equity CEFs on average witnessed negative returns, falling 2.61% on a NAV basis for November. While for the first month, three fixed income CEFs posted returns in the black (+0.12%). Thirty-six percent of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV, wi...

Interest rate volatility prompted another month of negative total returns. Below-average issuance was counterbalanced by a slowdown in demand. November could provide opportunities ahead of seasonal strength in December and January. For further details see: Muni Seasonal ...

Rising interest rates drove negative total returns. Supply and demand dynamics turned less seasonally favorable and acted as a headwind. More attractive valuations could provide near-term opportunity. For further details see: Munis Remained Tethered To Rates In September...

Tax-exempt municipal yields have trended down since the start of the year on the back of strong demand from investors and lower Treasury yields. However, over the last few weeks, yields have backed up sharply on a hawkish Fed turn. We take a look at the sector performance year to ...

Modestly negative performance in August capped a robust summer seasonal period. Issuance exceeded expectations, resulting in less of a supply/demand imbalance than is typical. We maintain a defensive posture into the historically less favorable month of September. For furthe...

The US House Ways and Means Committee released their new 881-page tax proposal –there's some tricky stuff in it. If passed, the new top Federal rate in the US will be 46.4 percent, while the top capital gains tax rate appears it will be 31.8 percent from my calculations. NY...

While they may have become more common over the last 10 years, municipal defaults and bankruptcies still remain rare overall. The five-year all-rated cumulative default rate of municipal bonds throughout the study period (1970-2020) was unchanged at 0.08% and still remains very low. ...

A number of mutual funds focused on high-yield municipal bonds have announced closure to new investors recently on the back of strong performance-chasing inflows. This sub-sector remains attractive in our view due to attractive yields and a supportive macro backdrop. We highlight ...

The option-adjusted-spread ((OAS)) on the investment grade or high-grade corporate bond index, is presently about 95-100 bps better than the equivalent Treasury. As of last Friday, August 27th, 2021, the BBB OAS was yielding about 104 bp’s over equivalent Treasuries, which shou...

The muni bond market is complex, fragmented and in a constant state of change. It has more than one million individual bond issues outstanding, representing more than 50,000 distinct issuers. One of the biggest challenges facing investors today is finding the right bonds to buil...