Blackrock Health Sciences Trust Stock News

BME focuses on an underlying portfolio of healthcare stocks with a covered call strategy. The fund has a long history of consistent distributions with no cuts since the fund's inception.

Investors received a bit of a reprieve in terms of losses as the market headed higher in March. Here are the three funds I purchased in March to add to my growing income.

U.K. stocks fell Thursday, as the FTSE 100 Index UKX closed down 1.08% at 7,113.39.

BME is highly concentrated on large caps, but it is yet to recover from the pandemic.

London stocks were under pressure on Monday, as investors got whipsawed by updates on the Ukraine-Russia crisis. Syanirgen and Morses were big movers to the downside.

The FTSE 100 is headed for a losing week, though retailers perked up. Utilities were in focus as Storm Eunice bore down.

BMEZ: Buy Low, Hold For The Distribution And Rebound

Down two out of three trading days, London stocks were moving higher on Tuesday.

(Reuters) Britains B&M European Value Retail SA on Thursday forecast annual profit ahead of market expectations as the discount retailer reported strong sales in the peak Christmas trading season.

BMEZ is a CEF that pays monthly and yields 7.23%. It's trading at a 7.92% discount to NAV.

BME is a closed-end fund managed by BlackRock that utilizes an equity-focused portfolio, supplemented with derivatives, to drive current income and total return. The fund has a current yield of 5.47%

October saw the broader indexes return to higher levels after September's dip. I wasn't aggressively buying for the month but found a few pockets worth putting capital to work in.

Shell's proposed new structure might mean more buybacks, but its bottom line still depends on oil, say analysts.

There were a total of 7 closed-end funds that have never cut their distributions with inceptions before 2008/09's GFC. We will see the loss of one of those names with PKO set to merge with PDI.