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Yesterday spreads on U.S. junk bonds widened the most since 2011 (on an absolute basis), notes Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund, News on ETFs, Financia...
The U.S. Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time in more than a decade. Kim Parlee speaks with Greg Kocik, Managing Director at TD Asset Management, about how to build a high-yield portfolio in an era of low interest Read more ...
Low and likely falling interest rates coupled with tight credit spreads are limiting the bond market's upside and leaving investors searching for alternative sources of yield. While investors often have specific allocations to corporate bonds and high yield debt, not all portfolios include ded...
By Kevin Flanagan Through the first six months of the year, the global fixed income markets have certainly put in a surprising performance. Indeed, as investors headed into 2019, the consensus opinion was that fixed income would more than likely put in a lackluster showing. As we are all w...
Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector significantly increased their prices over the past months. Currently, most of them are traded at positive Z-scores, which is an indication that they have lost most of their statistical edge. Still, they are traded at high discoun...
Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. (NYSE: HIX) announces its portfolio composition as of June 30, 2019. Investment Objective: The Fund seeks to maximize current income. As a secondary objective, the Fund seeks capital appreciation to the extent consistent with its objective of seeki...
"They say ignorance is bliss....they're wrong " - Franz Kafka If someone had told me during my long career on Wall Street that one day there would be negative yielding bonds I would have thought that person "Nuts!" It made no empirical sense then, and it makes no empirical sense now. Yet, ...
Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector significantly increased their prices over the past months. Currently, most of them are traded at positive Z-scores, which is an indication that they have lost most of their statistical edge. Still, they are traded at high discoun...
Make no mistake in your thinking. The nations of Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the rest of the European Union, along with Switzerland, and Japan, are "forcing" the Fed into a corner without any real escape. To begin with, the Fed, by its charter, is an "Independent Entity" created by t...
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2024-06-20 09:00:23 ET Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc (HIX) declaring a stock dividend of $0.049 per share on Ex-Date : June 21, 2024. Shareholders on record as of June 21, 2024 are eligible for the dividend. The payment date is scheduled for July 01, 2024, and the declaratio...
2024-05-23 05:00:26 ET It’s finally happening: Management fees on our favorite 8%+ paying assets— closed-end funds (CEFs) —are falling. And some are sending their already soaring dividends even higher, too. Those are key reasons to invest in these high-yield pla...
Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. (NYSE: HIX) today announced the financial position of the Fund as of January 31, 2024. Footnotes: (a) The difference between total assets and total net assets is due primarily to the Fund’s use of borrowings; total net assets do not include borr...