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...earlier this year, and even though some order has been restored, muni yields remain historically high. "These aren't as safe as cash," says Mark Soehn, managing director at Financial Solutions Advisory Group in Chicago. "But the risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed-end fund, which was trading at an unusually large 12% discount to the assets in the fund and yielding 5.7%. The after-tax equivalent of that yield for someone in the 30% tax bracket: 8.2%. Steep discounts and generous yields are still available in closed-end muni...
...contract through 2007, the N.Y.S.E. board ate its own cooking without appearing to criticize the man who has led the exchange through boom, bust, national disaster and scandal. "We wanted to announce to the world a vote of confidence for Dick," said Laurence Fink, CEO of the investment firm BlackRock and a member of the N.Y.S.E.'s compensation committee...
Opportunists like "Edmo," as trading pals call him, sit in the pits at hundreds of firms and move the market in increments every day. But it's the relatively few heavyweights like Gross--others include the Soros hedge funds and institutional managers such as BlackRock--who create sustained moves as they constantly position their portfolios for the unknown. People planning on refinancing or buying a house would do well to listen to what Gross has to say. For one thing, he says the unprecedented interest-rate volatility seen of late is now a permanent bond-market reality because...
...apparent disdain for President Bush's "simple moral clarity." If the American media insist on trivializing the enormity of Sept. 11 by rinsing its reality away in a river of moral relativism, they will have themselves to blame if terrorists launch an attack even more deadly. MICHAEL O'DRISCOLL Blackrock, Ireland...
Another, The Child of God, tells of the return from the great world of a gifted boy. Like young Michael, he was meant for the priesthood, but, like Narrator O'Flaherty himself, who ran away from Blackrock College, the boy found another vocation. He is an artist. When he returns with his painting gear to his native hearth, the villagers regard him and his works as the very devil...