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"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." - Charles Spurgeon British clergyman Watching with interest the historical defeat of Prime Minister Theresa May relating to Brexit, in conjunction with the Chinese central bank injecting a net 560 bil...
InsiderInsights' Daily Round Up articles rate the "significance" of the top 10 dollar value insider purchases and sales filed at the SEC on the Title date. Dollar value is only the most basic metric to assess the significance of an insider transaction, however, and there are many more "Signifi...
After screaming higher towards the end of 2018 right up through the first couple of days of 2019, high yield spreads have come crashing back down to earth in the last two weeks, falling from a high of 544 basis points (bps) on 1/3 to 440 bps through Thursday. At their highs two weeks ago, spre...
InsiderInsights' Daily Round Up articles rate the "significance" of the top 10 dollar value insider purchases and sales filed at the SEC on the Title date. Dollar value is only the most basic metric to assess the significance of an insider transaction, however, and there are many more "Signifi...
According to Bloomberg, junk bonds have already returned 3.45% this month, which would be the best January in several years. Drilling down further, CCC paper has returned 4.575%, the finest performer in fixed income. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloombe...
In this three-part series, Matt Tucker overturns some commonly held assumptions about the relationship between interest rates and bond returns. Here, he examines what 30 years of falling rates actually meant for bond investors. One comment you often hear these days is how lucky bond market...
By Matthew Sheridan Bond strategies that balance interest-rate and credit risk struggled in 2018. Is this time-tested approach past its prime? Hardly. We think investors will need to blend exposure to both to generate income and limit risk in 2019. Pairing high-yield corporate bonds and ...
By Cooper J. Howard There's an old joke in the bond market: "What's the difference between a high-yield bond and a junk bond?" "It's high yield when you buy it, but junk when you sell it!" Since high-yield munis - those that are rated below Baa3/BBB-, or not rated at all - were one of the ...
Mike Lanier, who has spent over 35 years in the trenches of the bond market, told me a while back that junk bonds “read like a bond but trade like a stock.” As the most volatile sector of the bond market, they offer significant opportunities to either make or lose a lot of mone...
InsiderInsights' Daily Round Up articles rate the "significance" of the top 10 dollar value insider purchases and sales filed at the SEC on the Title date. Dollar value is only the most basic metric to assess the significance of an insider transaction, however, and there are many more "Signifi...
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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...