NZF News and Press, Nuveen Municipal Credit Income Fund From 10/07/20

While most polls have Vice-President Biden ahead by 6-7% points, we know the race has the potential to be much closer. A higher marginal rate should also flatten the muni yield curve over time as the demand for longer-dated paper increases because of the benefits it provides on a taxa...

Nuveen: Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund (NYSE: NVG), Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Value Fund (NYSE: NUW), Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: NEA), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: NAZ), Nuveen Californi...

With CEFs, municipal bonds are not just for the wealthy anymore. If you have time on your side, let tax-free compounding work its magic for you. The key is to have patience in riding out the volatility of closed end funds. While NZF is not perfect, it does have some admirable ...

Nuveen Municipal Credit Income Fund (NZF) declares $0.066/share monthly dividend, 5.6% increase from prior dividend of $0.063.Forward yield 5.36%Payable Nov. 2; for shareholders of record Oct. 15; ex-div Oct. 14.See NZF Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further det...

Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. We will discuss whether ECC and OXLC really have >100% coverage in a separate post. For further details see: Closed-End Fund 'Quality' Report: September 2020

The CEF market is not always particularly efficient, which offers discerning investors opportunities to make attractive strategic or tactical acquisitions. One such opportunity described here is to acquire what we call shadow high-yielders - funds that have high earnings levels but ma...

In U.S. high yield bonds we find the riskiest of credits. I have some concerns about municipal bonds and am particularly concerned about municipal pension bonds. Our 'Borrower's Paradise' is also good news for many leveraged ETFs and closed-end funds. For further details see...

" Municipal bond investors have to share the burden in state bailouts " writes my colleague Josh Rauh, and he is exactly right. Background: State and local governments borrowed a lot of money and blew it. They borrowed further by not funding their pensions. Now Covid comes along, people are ...

At the end of July, Moody's Investors Service released its annual municipal bond market snapshot, US municipal bond defaults and recoveries, 1970-2019, with updates through 2019. The report continues to affirm two hallmark benefits offered by muni bonds. First, municipal defaults and bankruptc...

New York (September 15) - One of the more troubling admissions of Federal Reserve Chair Powell at his speech last month was his acknowledgement that "r-star" (r*), or the "natural" rate of interest, had fallen by some 50% since 2012. As Chair Powell described it: This rate (the r*rate) ...