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Bank Loan Fund That Pays 6% and Protects You From Inflation
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CEF Weekly Review: Real Estate Extends Gains
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CEF Weekly Review: Divergent Fund Types Discount Changes
Joe Eqcome • Mon, Aug 3, 2009 • 8 Comments
Life After Citi: Shorting High Yield Bonds
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5 Leveraged Loan CEFs To Watch
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Bank Loan Fund That Pays 6% and Protects You From Inflation
StreetAuthority • Thu, May 26, 2011 • 3 Comments
Better Than High-Yield Bonds: Corporate Loan Closed-End Funds
Steven Bavaria • Wed, Oct 6, 2010 • 12 Comments

Yes, There Is Still Hope In Bond Investments
MyPlanIQ • Wed, Apr 3 • 6 Comments
Determining The Perfect Time To Buy Closed-End Income Funds
Lou Basenese • Tue, Feb 5 • 17 Comments
Leveraged Loan Update
Andrew Boral • Mon, Oct 8, 2012 • 8 Comments
The High-Yield Corporate Bond Conundrum
Ploutos • Tue, Oct 2, 2012 • 35 Comments
59 High-Yielding Equities With Monthly Distributions, Part V: 6.5% To 7% Yields
Epsilon • Wed, Jan 4, 2012 • 5 Comments
Leveraged Loan Investments: CEF And ETF Possibilities, Part I
Andrew Boral • Mon, Jan 2, 2012 • 2 Comments
Buy Closed-End Funds At A Double-Digit Discount To NAV
Lou Basenese • Wed, Oct 19, 2011 • 25 Comments
CEF Weekly Review: Break Out the Party Hats?
Joe Eqcome • Sun, Apr 11, 2010 • 3 Comments
New CEF ETF: Interesting Weighting Scheme
George Spritzer • Mon, Feb 22, 2010 • 16 Comments
CEF Weekly Review: Risk Trade Extends Advance
Joe Eqcome • Sun, Feb 21, 2010 • 4 Comments
Ways to Play a Rising Short-Term Fed Rate
ETFdesk • Fri, Dec 18, 2009 • 4 Comments
CEF Weekly Review: Real Estate Extends Gains
Joe Eqcome • Mon, Sep 21, 2009 • 6 Comments
CEF Weekly Review: Divergent Fund Types Discount Changes
Joe Eqcome • Mon, Aug 3, 2009 • 8 Comments
Life After Citi: Shorting High Yield Bonds
Rakesh Saxena • Tue, Nov 25, 2008 • 7 Comments
3 Portfolios for a Steady Cash Flow
Jeffrey R. Kosnett • Fri, Jul 25, 2008 • 13 Comments
5 Leveraged Loan CEFs To Watch
George Spritzer • Sun, Feb 17, 2008 • 12 Comments
Stocks That Pay Monthly Dividends
Stockerblog • Wed, Mar 7, 2007 • 22 Comments
Want Monthly Dividends? 150 Stocks that Pay
Stockerblog • Tue, Jan 30, 2007 • 9 Comments
Year-End List of Monthly Dividend Stocks (updated)
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Sector: Financial

Industry: Closed-End Fund - Debt

Country: United States

kypsterx
I received my shares through the DNN sale to EFR but why does the EFR shares show up as a 90% loss?
7/5/12
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DAG1996: glad to help. still waiting for my shares.
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DAG1996: man, these EFR shares are worthless. i would've been better of to sell my DNN shares at a reasonable rice than wait for this dud! lol
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GOLLIATH
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG! Glorious day, Monster, surging, rally!
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GOLLIATH: MM, I follow Chines rants. He likes to exaggerate.
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458402: then you need to say markets ripping higher!
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GOLLIATH
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG ABT into open I will be selling JNJ and CLX for decent gains and look to re enter later.
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JCH57: He just cuts and pastes Chines33's posts for some reason.
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GOLLIATH
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG ABT
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Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG ABT into open I will be selling JNJ and CLX for decent gains and look to re enter later.
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GOLLIATH: It feels good to be right.
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Chines33
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG ABT into open I will be selling JNJ and CLX for decent gains and look to re enter later.
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Noreika: Thanks!
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Noreika: Alright, nibbled at PNG. (I don't have the $ like the big boys....yet.)
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Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week: http://bit.ly/ve16vY + $BAX $BF.B $CFFI $EFT $EFR $FFG $GAB $THG $HFC $HD $JCI $LG $TLI $MDU
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kypsterx
I received my shares through the DNN sale to EFR but why does the EFR shares show up as a 90% loss?
7/5/12
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DAG1996: glad to help. still waiting for my shares.
7/6/12
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DAG1996: man, these EFR shares are worthless. i would've been better of to sell my DNN shares at a reasonable rice than wait for this dud! lol
7/17/12
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GOLLIATH
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG! Glorious day, Monster, surging, rally!
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GOLLIATH: MM, I follow Chines rants. He likes to exaggerate.
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458402: then you need to say markets ripping higher!
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GOLLIATH
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG ABT into open I will be selling JNJ and CLX for decent gains and look to re enter later.
1/3/12
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JCH57: He just cuts and pastes Chines33's posts for some reason.
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Chines33
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG ABT into open I will be selling JNJ and CLX for decent gains and look to re enter later.
1/3/12
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Noreika: Thanks!
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Noreika: Alright, nibbled at PNG. (I don't have the $ like the big boys....yet.)
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GOLLIATH
Long SBUX WMT APA ESV SLB DD EMC PRU EFR PNG ABT into open I will be selling JNJ and CLX for decent gains and look to re enter later.
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GOLLIATH: It feels good to be right.
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