NXR News and Press, Nuveen Select Tax Free Income Portfolio III From 12/09/18

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By Sheila Amoroso, Senior Vice President, Director, Municipal Bond Department, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group Municipal bond yields moved higher in 2018 and seem likely to continue moving up in 2019 if market expectations for further interest-rate increases play out. Sheila Amoros...

By Patricia Healy, CFA Today's municipal bond market is anything but "sleepy," as Spencer Jakab characterized it in his Wall Street Journal article, "Prophet of Muni Market Doom Wasn't Wrong, Just Early" (10/26/2018). The Prophet of Doom he referred to was Meredith Whitney, who shortly b...

Distributions Highlight Nuveen’s Broad Range of Strategies for Income-Seeking Investors Regular Monthly Tax-Exempt and Taxable Fund Distributions Three Funds Declare Monthly Cash-Flow Based Distributions Several Nuveen closed-end funds have declared distributions...

The current U.S. economic expansion is now the second-longest in the postwar era, and while it may have more room to run, we believe a recession is likely over the three- to five-year horizon. As U.S. taxpayers think about positioning their portfolios, we see three key reasons why the tax-ex...

The Weekly CEF Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information has been ...

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There's more than one way to invest in municipal bonds. Closed-end municipal funds seek to provide higher levels of income, and short-term volatility can present attractive entry points for long-term investors. Municipal bonds offer multiple benefits to income-seeking investors-high qualit...

By John R. Mousseau, CFA In a year when we have seen commentators talking about the relative flatness of yield curves, we have a conundrum when we look at the US Treasury yield curve and the US muni yield curve (shown here as the Bloomberg AA general obligation yield curve). Curve 1 belo...

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