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This year is shaping up to be a really important year for market rates in terms of their influence on the financial system. With Covid vaccines being rolled out, we could easily see a 5% growth rate in the States. As ING's Padhraic Garvey tells us from New York, there could well b...
COVID turned out to be quite the economic event, and a pandemic under control promises to deliver a recovering economy by the end of 2021. On the other hand, should the vaccinations not go according to plan and the pandemic is not declining by June 2021, the economy may not recover at...
The price of risk is what investors demand as a premium, an extra return over and above what they can make on a guaranteed investment (risk free), to invest in a risky asset. Corporate bonds are traded, and as a consequence, and you can use traded prices to estimate default spreads in...
Investors appear almost universally to be pricing for an early-cycle mix of low interest rates and ongoing support from both monetary and fiscal policy, combined with the release of pent-up demand from consumers and manufacturers. Short-term stumbling blocks are not confined to the on...
The stock market made an all-time high in its first week of 2021, shrugging off the violence, and the Treasury market recaptured 1% on the 10-year note, closing the week at 1.12%. Furthermore, there is no pressure in the junk bond market, which, rightly or wrongly, assumes that with t...
Credit markets have staged an epic rebound from the depths of March 2020. But in a low-growth, low-yield world, we believe there may be more room to run in 2021. For investors, we believe a nimble, selective approach will be especially important to grasp the opportunities presente...
Ultra-low interest rates make it difficult for investors to earn yields in excess of inflation. High-yield bonds can be a source of income in today’s market. iShares has numerous bond ETFs that can help investors target different segments of the high yield bond market, depe...
The new Administration's tax proposals, in year one, total some $3.9 trillion, according to Moody's Analytics estimates. Yields on munis sank to 1.14%, which is their lowest since 1979. Also, the municipal bond spread to Treasuries is near historic lows. Yields have gone up somewh...
Corporate America has used the past few months to strengthen balance sheets and position itself to "ride out the storm" of the next 6-12 months or more. I feel more confident about CLOs and the underlying corporate loan market that supports it. Trends in corporate default rates, t...
Helped by fiscal and monetary policy support, bankruptcy filings in December 2020 of 34,304 hit the lowest monthly total since January 2006, according to data from legal services firm Epiq.For the year 2020, filings fell to 529,068, the lowest since 1986, indicating that federal measures to s...
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PHILADELPHIA, PA / ACCESSWIRE / July 26, 2024 / The Board of Trustees of abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund (NYSE:ACP) , announces today that shareholders of First Trust/abrdn Global Opportunity Income Fund (NYSE:FAM) ("FAM" or the "Acquired Fund") advised by First Trust Advisors L.P. have app...
2024-07-25 05:00:37 ET Few people pay much attention to the management team of a closed-end fund (CEF). But it’s becoming a much more critical factor driving CEF upside (and downside!), as well as these funds’ 8%+ dividend payouts. I was reminded of this recently by a ...
abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund (NYSE: ACP) (“ACP” or the “Acquiring Fund”) and First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund (NYSE: FSD) (“FSD” or the “Acquired Fund”) announce today the completed reorganization of the Acquired Fund wit...