WIW News and Press, Western Asset Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund From 06/18/21

Fast-rising inflation could have major economic consequences with implications that reach far beyond the checkout aisle. The best-known measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index [CPI], rose 5% in May 2021 compared with the same month last year — the biggest annual rise sin...

Shares of Western Asset Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund (NYSE:WIW) traded today at $13.22, eclipsing its 52-week high. So far today approximately 125,000 shares have been exchanged, as compared to an average 30-day volume of 114,000 shares. Western Asset Inflation-Linked...

Stocks eked out some small gains this week bringing the S&P 500 within a half a percent of the all-time high hit on May 7th. Discounts climbed back to their tightest levels of the last 8 years with munis starting to catch up to taxables. The spreads between the two are down to 1.4...

For the seventh month in a row, equity closed-end funds (CEFs) on average posted positive returns, rising 1.90% on a NAV basis for May. While for the third month running fixed income CEFs posted plus-side returns (+0.86%). Thirty percent of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NA...

Several research studies have found significant liquidity risk premium in inflation-linked markets, both in developed and emerging markets. After substantial QE, G7 central banks now hold a high proportion of outstanding government debt, reducing the "free-float" in government debt ma...

Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed-end funds have declared their distributions pursuant to their managed distribution policy for the months of June, July, August, September, October, and November 2021. The following dates apply to the distribut...

While many yields are at, or near, their historic lows, opportunity remains in select segments of emerging-market debt, triple B-rated corporate bonds and certain areas of the mortgage-securities market. A good way to approach value stocks has been to find those that are attractively ...

Emerging markets bonds historically do well in a rising interest rate environment. The U.S. is on track to potentially grow faster than China in 2021, in our view. Emerging markets economies tend to benefit from U.S. twin deficits. For further details see: Fortify Your 4...

Investors have been hearing prognostications of “runaway inflation" for more than a decade now, since the end of the global financial crisis. With central banks and governments around the world offering up unprecedented stimulus spending to combat pandemic-induced economic disr...

Investors have been hearing prognostications of “runaway inflation" for more than a decade now, since the end of the global financial crisis. With central banks and governments around the world offering up unprecedented stimulus spending to combat pandemic-induced economic disr...