BlackRock Enhanced Government Fund,... (EGF)

The market is showing signs of weakness and lacks sustainable upside momentum. The recent sell-off has broken key moving averages, indicating a potential shift in market sentiment.

Term funds have a few topics making them different that I hope to clear up with today's overview. Term funds can benefit shareholders as NAV is realized one way or another.

BlackRock Enhanced Government Fund is a fixed income closed-end fund. The CEF comes from the BlackRock suite but is on the small side with only a $40 mm AUM.

While there is upward pressure on market rates in 2022, it's not coming from higher net supply. In fact, lower net supply can help to richen government bonds. On top of that, we should see flatter cur...

The deficit spending that supported the economy in 2020 is showing up in hot inflation numbers in 2021. While I think the inflation numbers will get better in 2022, I do not believe they will get back...

At the November FOMC meeting, the Fed officially announced that it would begin tapering its bond purchase program, starting in mid-November. When the Fed began tapering its QE3 program over the course...

We review CEF market valuation and performance over the third week of October and highlight recent market events. The CEF market has partly retraced its September weakness as equity NAV strength and a...

Inflation expectation is a key metric the Fed watches closely. Housing costs - based on different measures of rents - account for one-third of CPI.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, BlackRock Enhanced Government Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: EGF, CUSIP: 09255K108) announced that the annual offer to repurchase outstanding shares of common stock (...

The commercial banking system now maintains the largest amount of reserve balances it has ever held, thanks to the effort of the Federal Reserve System. Because of this liquidity in the banks, short-t...