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You're going to be hearing the word uncertainty a lot over the next month. Uncertainty reigns supreme after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus. Winter has come early for the UK. The weather has turned, nights are drawing in sooner a...
The first stage of the US economic recovery proved as strong as we expected, and even following the second wave of contagion in July, the recovery showed an encouraging degree of resilience. We expect third-quarter US gross domestic product to show a strong quarter-on-quarter rebound,...
News earlier today that the US President and his wife have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus has injected a new unknown into not only the US election but the markets as well. US shares are around 1.2% lower. European shares have recouped some of the initial sharper losses. ...
The dramatic move in commodities could be due to portfolio rebalancing at the end of the month, or it could be signaling that the recovery is running out of steam. Countries are doing QE to manipulate their currencies and get inflation, but their attempts to reflate their economies ar...
The reality that most small businesses close in failure underlines the risk involved in loaning money to such concerns. Still, it is difficult to deny the importance of small business in the overall economy. The Fed has played a major role in pushing inequality higher. Federal Reserve...
The second quarter of 2020 saw the worst quarterly decline in economic terms since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The third quarter of 2020 is the first recovery quarter, and that recovery is extremely sharp because it is coming from such a depressed bottom. Many economists ar...
It's a tall order but housing is enjoying a V recovery and history suggests that this key slice of the economy plays a critical role in the business cycle. Is this a macro silver bullet for 2020 and beyond? It's unclear if the August stumble in starts and permits is an early warning s...
We provide a check in our 10 charts to watch in 2020: both keeping score and addressing the "Where to next?" question. Among the key takeaways, we see global growth rebounding into 2021, with emerging markets set to surprise. We see underappreciated and underpriced upside inflatio...
The global market is in the early recovery phase of the business cycle following the COVID-19 recession. This implies an extended period of low-inflation, low-interest-rate growth - an environment that usually favors equities over bonds. But after such a rapid rebound, an equity market pu...
I am hopeful that there won't be a major second wave of infections, but I believe there is a good possibility that there will be one. But if most countries are able to avoid wide-scale lockdowns, the negative impact to the global economy should be relatively low, in my view. The stock...
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HARTFORD, Conn. , Nov. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The reorganization of Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZF) with and into Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZTR) has been completed. ZF ceased trading and dissolved as of the close of business on Friday, November ...
HARTFORD, Conn. , Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boards of Directors of Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZTR), Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZF), and Duff & Phelps Select MLP and Midstream Energy Fund Inc. (NYSE: DSE), and the Board of Trus...
HARTFORD, Conn. , Oct. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZF) previously announced the following quarterly distribution on September 25, 2019 : Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution...