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If we live long enough, almost all of life's activities are cyclical, alternating from favorable to unfavorable. The name of the game is to be able to participate in the favorable. Economic and stock market cycles are not identical, but they tend to "rhyme". If stock prices do their j...
Certain policies have been laid out by the new administration that we can expect. Serious problems lie ahead that no one knows how to solve. Investors should prepare for the problems. For further details see: The Biden-Harris Administration: What We Think We Know, What W...
Global stocks declined for the second consecutive month in October, but rallied back in early November. We trimmed our equity overweight in October ahead of the U.S. election, though we remain cautiously optimistic on risk assets into year end. In a challenging market, the BlackRo...
Positive COVID-19 vaccine developments give us greater confidence in the activity restart, and may make it easier for policy support to bridge the income gap. The vaccine news sparked a sharp rotation into value and small-cap stocks that fizzled later in the week when near-term virus ...
All evidence indicates that the US economy is in a strong V-shaped recovery. COVID-19 will be contained soon. Technicals also point to a coming big rally. Our portfolio update. For further details see: The Market - A Big Year-End Rally Is Underway
Stocks (especially techs) are in strong hands in the short term. But an important intermediate-term top could be in place by January. Investor sentiment is getting frothy, while insider selling is spiking. Participants should prepare for a weak start to the New Year. For...
While some will mark the Presidential election or the Pfizer vaccine release as the date of the start of the "great rotation", it's my belief investors have been seeing the rotation in fits and starts since September 2nd, 2020, when the S&P 500 peaked at 3,885. The "great rotation...
On Monday, the announcement by Pfizer sent markets screaming higher. However, it wasn't like rallies we had seen previously. Instead, it was a fierce rotation from the previous leaders to laggards. Given the more overbought condition, we expect a one- to two-week correction at the beg...
Monday's Pfizer announcement followed pivotal elections by only a few trading sessions - an election I have posited as the most hedged individual event ever. Markets were already in a state of acute instability prior to the news, having been spurred sharply higher by the unwind of hedges ...
While the data is clear that ongoing stimulus programs lead to weaker economic growth and a rising wealth gap, is the Fed stuck with "forever stimulus?" The trap the Federal Reserve has stumbled into is that it continues to require more interventions to sustain lower rates of economic...
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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...