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By Sheila Amoroso, Senior Vice President, Director, Municipal Bond Department, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group; Daniel Workman, CFA, Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group; Francisco Rivera, Vice President, Municipal Bond Department, Franklin Templeton ...
Credit markets have rallied significantly over the past few years, with spreads over Treasuries in the U.S., for example, dwindling to very tight levels alongside decreasing yields. At the same time, many investors have raised concerns over credit market volatility, liquidity, potential overva...
Introduction The past week was relatively calm and uneventful for the high-yield bonds and the closed-end funds which invest in this type of asset. The economy continues to be strong and the data from the past week proved it. The housing starts jumped to a 13-year high and retail sales...
By Matthew Sheridan The era of low yields and the investment challenges they bring isn't likely to end soon. Ongoing geopolitical tensions and slowing global growth will contribute to persistently low and negative yields in 2020 . A global slowdown could leave the world even more vulnerab...
The Weekly Closed-End Fund 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 h...
Foreword Any collection of stocks is more clearly understood when subjected to yield-based (dog catcher) analysis, these dividend-boosted batches are perfect for the Arnold dog catcher process. Here is your January 6 and 13 data from Barron's for 29 of 31 dividend-paying stocks as suppleme...
Introduction The seeking of high-yield opportunities continues, and the sector of the high-yield bonds continues with its strong performance. This year has started more than well for these assets, and even the fears of a military confrontation between the U.S. and Iran were not enough to i...
By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy and Josh Shapiro, CFA, Quantitative Strategist Our base case is that the credit cycle will not turn in 2020. Investors will likely continue to seek income in higher-yielding fixed income assets. An important topic in credit strategy resear...
Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country. - Murray Rothbard First it was a game, a wonderful game, but just a game. Then, as fic...
Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector continue with their solid performance. The first days of 2020 were very positive for the benchmark of the sector. The closed-end funds which invest in high-yield bonds did not impress us with their performance but most of them ...
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Shares of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) traded at a new 52-week high today of $2.99. Approximately 57,000 shares have changed hands today, as compared to an average 30-day volume of 78,000 shares. Mfs Intermediate High Income Fund is a United States based diversified close...
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) traded today at a new 52-week high of $2.95. Approximately 55,000 shares have changed hands today, as compared to an average 30-day volume of 74,000 shares. In the past 52 weeks, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund share prices are bracketed by ...
MFS Investment Management ® (MFS ® ) announced today monthly distributions of the following closed-end funds, all with declaration dates of January 2, 2019, ex-dividend dates of January 15, 2019, record dates of January 16, 2019, and payable dates of January 31, 2019: ^The fun...