NZF News and Press, Nuveen Municipal Credit Income Fund From 11/20/18

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...

Introduction Over the past few months, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage, and directional, opportunities for active traders like us. Now that these products have grabbed our ...

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Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NYSE: NXP ) - $0.0455. Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio 2 (NYSE: NXQ ) - $0.0420. Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio 3 (NYSE: NXR ) - $0.0435. Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NYSE: NUV ) - $0.0310. Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Value Fund...

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...

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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...