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- 9mo agoBFKBFZBLEBNY+6BlackRock Announces Completion of Certain Municipal CEF Reorganizations and Adoption of Discount Management ProgramBusiness WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a "Fund" and collectively, the "Funds") have completed their reorganizations or mergers, as applicable (each, a "Reorganization"
- 10mo agoBFKBFZBKNBLE+15Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Municipal Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock municipal closed-end funds (the "Funds") previously announced mergers or reorganizations ("Reorganizations"). The March distributions for the Surviving Funds below represents the distributions to be
- 11mo agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Note: BlackRock Enhanced Large Cap Core Fund, Inc. (CII) declared its December distribution on 10/1/2025 with an Ex-Date
- 11mo agoBFKBFZBLEBNY+8BlackRock Announces Shareholder Approval of Certain Municipal CEF ReorganizationsBusiness WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that, at shareholder meetings held on October 15, 2025 and November 20, 2025, shareholders of each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a "Fund" and collectively, the
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 11/3/2025 Ex-Date- 11/14/2025 Record- 11/14/2025 Payable- 12/1/2025 National
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 10/1/2025 Ex-Date- 10/15/2025 Record- 10/15/2025 Payable- 11/3/2025 National
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 9/2/2025 Ex-Date- 9/15/2025 Record- 9/15/2025 Payable-
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 8/1/2025 Ex-Date- 8/15/2025 Record- 8/15/2025 Payable- 9/2/2025 National
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 7/1/2025 Ex-Date- 7/15/2025 Record- 7/15/2025 Payable-
- 1y agoBFKBFZBHVBKN+21BlackRock Announces Board Approvals Seeking to Deliver Significant Scale Benefits to Municipal CEF ShareholdersBusiness WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that each of the Boards of Directors/Trustees of each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a "Fund" and collectively, the "Funds") has approved the following reorganizations
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 6/2/2025 Ex-Date- 6/13/2025 Record- 6/13/2025 Payable-
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+45Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: National Funds Ticker Distribution Declaration- 5/1/2025 Ex-Date- 5/15/2025 Record-
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+44Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: National Funds Ticker Distribution Declaration- 4/1/2025 Ex-Date- 4/15/2025 Record-
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+46Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: National Funds Ticker Distribution Declaration- 3/3/2025 Ex-Date-
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 2/3/2025 Ex-Date- 2/14/2025 Record- 2/14/2025 Payable- 2/26/2025 National
- 1y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 1/2/2025 Ex-Date- 1/15/2025 Record- 1/15/2025 Payable- 2/3/2025 National
- 1y agoBBNBCATBFKBFZ+38Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 12/6/2024 Ex-Date- 12/16/2024 Record- 12/16/2024 Payable- 12/31/2024 National
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 11/1/2024 Ex-Date- 11/15/2024 Record- 11/15/2024 Payable- 12/2/2024 National
- 2y agoBBNBCXBDJBFK+42Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Summary of Distribution Announcements 16 tax-exempt municipal funds announced increases to their monthly distribution
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 9/3/2024 Ex-Date- 9/16/2024 Record- 9/16/2024 Payable- 10/1/2024 National
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 8/1/2024 Ex-Date- 8/15/2024 Record- 8/15/2024 Payable- 9/3/2024 National
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6BlackRock Announces Certified Results of 2024 Annual Meetings of Ten Contested Closed-End FundsBusiness WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC ("BlackRock") announced today the final certified voting results of the 2024 Annual Meetings of Shareholders (the "Annual Meetings") of the ten closed-end funds contested by Saba Capital
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 7/1/2024 Ex-Date- 7/15/2024 Record- 7/15/2024 Payable- 8/1/2024 National
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6Saba Capital Corrects BlackRock's Intentionally False and Misleading 2024 Annual Meeting ResultsBusiness WireBlackRock Materially Misled Stakeholders by Announcing Results That Exclude All of Saba's Votes and Other Supportive Shareholders Shareholders Voted for Each of Saba's Nominees by Wide Margin in Two of BlackRock's
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6Shareholders Reject Every One of Saba's Proposals to Terminate BlackRock as Adviser and Support the Board's Nominees in Preliminary Voting Results of 2024 Annual MeetingsBusiness WireShareholders Reject Saba's Proposal to Terminate BlackRock at BCAT, BFZ, BIGZ, BMEZ, ECAT Saba Failed to Seat Any Nominees at Eight Closed-End Funds MPA's Full Board Reelected, Defeating Saba's Seven Nominees BFZ
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6Glass Lewis Supports ALL of BlackRock's Board Nominees and Rejects ALL of Saba's Proposals to Terminate BlackRock as Investment Adviser at Contested CEF Annual MeetingsBusiness WireRecommends Voting on the WHITE Proxy Card at Upcoming Meetings on June 17, June 18, June 25 and June 26 BlackRock Advisors, LLC ("BlackRock") announced today that leading independent proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6ISS Recommends Shareholders Vote the GOLD Proxy Card "FOR" Saba Capital's Nominees at Four Major BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireA Leading Independent Proxy Advisory Firm Has Now Endorsed Boardroom Change at the BlackRock Innovation and Growth Term Trust, BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Term Trust, the BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6ISS Rejects ALL Proposals to Terminate BlackRock as Investment Adviser and Recommends Shareholders Support ALL BlackRock Board Nominees at BCAT, BMEZ, BNY, MPA on WHITE Proxy Card at Upcoming CEF Annual MeetingsBusiness WireISS Recommends Shareholders Vote AGAINST ALL of Saba's Termination Proposals at BCAT, BFZ, BIGZ, BMEZ, BSTZ, ECAT ISS Recommends Shareholders Vote FOR ALL of BlackRock's Nominees at BCAT, BMEZ, BNY, MPA BlackRock
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6ISS Endorses ALL of Saba Capital's Nominees at the BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust and BlackRock California Municipal Income TrustBusiness WireA Leading Independent Proxy Advisory Firm Concludes "Direct Intervention at the Board Level is Necessary" Based on the Funds' Unacceptable Performance and Anti-Shareholder Governance Visit HeyBlackRock.com to Learn
- 2y agoBFZBNYBSTZMHN+2Glass Lewis Recommends Shareholders Fully Support BlackRock Board Nominees at BFZ, BNY and MYN, and Reject Saba's Proposal to Terminate BlackRock as Investment Adviser of BFZ on WHITE Proxy Card at Upcoming CEF Annual MeetingsBusiness WireISS Also Recommends Shareholders Vote FOR ALL BlackRock Board Nominees at BNY, MPA and FOR Steinmetz at MHN, MYN on the WHITE Proxy Card ISS Also Recommends AGAINST Termination Proposals at BFZ and
- 2y agoBFZBNYBSTZMHN+2Institutional Shareholder Services Recommends Shareholders Vote FOR ALL BlackRock Board Nominees at BNY and MPA and AGAINST Saba's Proposals to Terminate BlackRock as Investment Adviser of BFZ and BSTZ at Closed-End Funds' Upcoming Annual MeetingsBusiness WireBlackRock LLC ("BlackRock") announced today that Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS"), a leading independent proxy advisory firm, recommended that shareholders vote on the WHITE proxy card FOR ALL of the Board
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Certain BlackRock Funds previously declared their June distributions on May 20, 2024 BlackRock ESG Capital
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6Saba Capital Shares Key Facts That Reinforce the Urgent Need for Change at 10 BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireSpotlights BlackRock's Hypocrisy in Claiming to Be a Leader in Governance, While Crushing Shareholder Rights and Destroying Billions in Shareholder Value Visit www.HeyBlackRock.com to Access Key Materials, Sign Up for
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6Saba Capital Releases Presentation Detailing Plan to Deliver Enhanced Shareholder Value at 10 BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WirePresentation Details the Funds' Significant Long-Term Underperformance, BlackRock's Attempts to Crush Shareholder Rights and the Opportunity to Unlock $1.4 Billion in Value for Investors Join Saba's Webinar on May
- 2y agoBFKBFZBHVBKN+20BlackRock Announces Management Fee Waiver for Certain Closed-End FundsBusiness WireThe BlackRock closed-end funds (each a "Fund," and collectively the "Funds") listed below announced today the implementation of voluntary management fee waivers, effective May 1, 2024. Under the terms of this
- 2y agoBFZMPABlackRock Announces Increased Distribution Rates for Certain Municipal Closed-End FundsBusiness WireToday, the Board of Directors/Trustees of BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (NYSE:MPA) and BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:BFZ), (each a "Fund," and collectively the "Funds") announced
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 5/1/2024 Ex-Date- 5/14/2024 Record- 5/15/2024 Payable- 6/3/2024 National
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 4/1/2024 Ex-Date- 4/12/2024 Record- 4/15/2024 Payable- 5/1/2024 National
- 2y agoBCATBFZBIGZBMEZ+6Saba Launches Campaign to Improve the Boards of 10 Poorly Governed and Underperforming Closed-End Funds Managed by BlackRockBusiness WireFiles Lawsuit Against BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Term Trust for Adopting an Illegal "Entrenchment Bylaw" that Strips Shareholders of the Opportunity to Elect New Directors Intends to Hold BlackRock and Its
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 3/1/2024 Ex-Date- 3/14/2024 Record- 3/15/2024 Payable- 4/1/2024 National
- 2y agoBCATBCXBDJBFK+39BlackRock Closed-End Funds have Repurchased approximately $1.3 Billion of Shares since the Share Repurchase Program's InceptionBusiness WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC ("BlackRock") released today share repurchase activity for certain BlackRock-advised closed-end funds (the "Funds") during the quarter ended December 31, 2023. The Funds have authorized open
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+38Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE:BGT), BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund, Inc. (NYSE:FRA) and
- 2y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+46BlackRock Closed-End Funds Announce Renewal of Share Repurchase ProgramsBusiness WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Boards of Directors/Trustees of fifty BlackRock municipal, taxable fixed income, equity, and multi-asset closed-end funds (the "Funds") have authorized the renewal of
- 2y agoBFKBFZBHVBKN+22BlackRock Announces Distribution Increases for Municipal Closed-End FundsBusiness WireToday, the Board of Directors/Trustees of the BlackRock municipal closed-end funds listed below (the "Funds") announced distributions, which reflect distribution increases for several Funds. The distribution increases
- 3y agoBCATBFKBFZBHV+24BlackRock to Host Tax-Loss Harvesting & Closed-End Fund Opportunities Conference Call on November 13, 2023 at 11:00am ETBusiness WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC ("BlackRock") will host a conference call on Monday, November 13, 2023 at 11:00am ET to discuss year-end tax loss selling opportunities in the closed-end fund market. The call will feature Russ
- 3y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust (NYSE:BSTZ), BlackRock Health Sciences Term Trust (NYSE:BMEZ) and BlackRock
- 3y agoBFKBFZBHVBKN+21BlackRock Municipal Closed-End Funds Repurchased Over $160 Million of Shares in 2023Business WireBlackRock Advisors, LLC ("BlackRock") released today share repurchase activity for certain BlackRock-advised closed-end funds (the "Funds") during the quarter ended September 30, 2023. The Funds have authorized open
- 3y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+47Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. BlackRock Limited Duration Income Trust (NYSE:BLW) announced an increase in its monthly distribution rate and BlackRock
- 3y agoBBNBCATBCXBDJ+46Distribution Dates and Amounts Announced for Certain BlackRock Closed-End FundsBusiness WireCertain BlackRock closed-end funds (the "Funds") announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 9/1/2023 Ex-Date- 9/14/2023 Record- 9/15/2023 Payable- 10/2/2023 National
- 3y agoBFZBlackRock California Municipal Income Trust Annual Meeting Certified Results Show Full Sweep by Incumbent Trustees in Contested ElectionBusiness WireIn Reelecting All Incumbent Trustees, Shareholders Reject Dissident Nominees BlackRock LLC ("BlackRock") announced today that, based on the final certified voting results of the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders