4 Closed-End Fund Buys (And A Sell) In The Month Of February 2025

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Summary

  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq started to dip toward the end of February, but a strong last trading day of the month rally clawed back some of those losses.
  • The equal-weighted S&P 500, as measured by the Invesco ETF RSP, held up reasonably well thanks to the value sectors putting up some better performance.
  • Every month, I put some cash to work to grow my CEF portfolio income, though I've been allowing my cash pile to also grow over the last year or so.
  • This idea was discussed in more depth with members of my private investing community, CEF/ETF Income Laboratory. Learn More »

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As we were finishing off February 2025, we started to see a bit of an increase in overall market volatility, though, the last trading day surge clawed back some of the deepest declines. In particular, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has been seeing the

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