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Business shows its optimism with its investments. Credit conditions are easing. The business cycle is on a strong upswing – good news for equities. For further details see: A Strong Economy And Easier Lending Standards Are Fueling The Bull Market
Washington appears to be back at the center of the market’s attention as Congress moves to pass yet another fiscal package. For the moment, inflation is in check (prices as measured by the CPI rose about 1.5% year over year in January, a touch lower than the pre-COVID rate), bu...
Currently, we are at a P/E of 31 on the S&P 500. The last time that we saw valuations this stretched was in early 2000. With interest rates so low and policy so accommodative, we will see investors chasing things higher for longer. For further details see: An Era Of ...
Investors are growing increasingly hopeful about the economic outlook and next week's PMIs will tell us whether businesses share their optimism. Central bank minutes will also provide more insight into whether policy makers are encouraged and what it means for monetary policy. Opt...
Central banking traditionally operated as a judicious and conservative institution, with an overarching mandate focused on promoting monetary and financial stability. The world is now in the throes of history's greatest experiment in central bank doctrine and operations. The probl...
It has now been nearly 25 years since the term "irrational exuberance" permanently entered our financial vocabulary. But recent developments bring the phrase to mind with new relevance. However, if we look past these recent aberrations, we may find evidence to justify at least some se...
Why market valuations are still reasonable. What reopening stocks are poised to rebound. Will 2020 pandemic winners be laggards in 2021? For further details see: High-Flying Markets: How High Can They Go?
Risk assets have compressed in yield against Treasuries, so that any meaningful yield of anything has gotten wrung out of the markets. For the first time ever, yields in the High Yield markets are now less than 4.00%. In other words, you are getting paid about nothing for credit risk....
Year over year, the value of goods traded between the U.S. and China surged in December 2020. The level of the combined value of traded goods between the U.S. and China rose by $14 billion in December 2020 year over year. The growth rate of China's imports from the U.S. has been p...
With the advent of a series of successful vaccines, global markets can almost afford to be oblivious to virus headlines and instead focus on the medium term when economies have reopened. But, against this backdrop, a big question for investors must be: how quickly can populations be vacci...
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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...