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By enhancing liquidity and improving functionality in the corporate bond markets, new U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) programs have been good news in the short term. Yet a number of unknowns remain regarding the rollout of these programs, and we foresee potentially challenging impacts for more high...
Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on April 13, 2020, and includes a rare reposting of CEF news compilation and our commentary to members. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price m...
Junk bonds - those rated BB or lower - surged earlier this month as the US Federal Reserve announced it would be buying high yield ETFs for the first time in history. The announcement came on April 9, less than three weeks following the equity market low on March 23. On the news, speculative...
Originally recorded April 6, 2020 First, we have the crippling global pandemic that we're all struggling with, and second, a concurrent collapse in oil prices. The result of this has been a swift and broad-based repricing of risk across all the capital markets, across all sectors, ass...
Who could have seen this coming? It's week 5 of the economic lockdown, and stocks have rallied to August 2019 levels again. If that makes sense to you, then you're smarter than me. To be fair, there is a massive deal of monetary and fiscal stimulus in the market, but the fact is that the Ameri...
The “Great Lockdown” has caused a dramatic drop in 2020 growth expectations from the IMF, which said we are likely to see the worst recession since the Great Depression. But the big news was that the market was up 3% on the back of negative earnings reports from the country...
Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on March 30, 2020, and includes a rare reposting of our weekly commentary and actionable ideas. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements...
Originally published April 8, 2020 It has always been interesting to me how the media concentrates almost 100% on the equity markets. It is almost like the bond markets didn't exist or, if they did, that it was on some far off planet that didn't deserve anyone's attention. I have always fe...
By Pater Tenebrarum Everything and the Kitchen Sink After the first inter-meeting rate cut in early March, we opined that further rate cuts were a near certainty and that “not-QE” would swiftly morph into “QE, next iteration” (see Rate Cutters Unanimous for ...
By Scott DiMaggio and Gershon Distenfeld Most of the global bond market sold off sharply in the first quarter as the coronavirus crisis emerged and intensified. Economic activity halted across much of the world. Credit spreads—yields relative to comparable-maturity government bond ...
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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...