I don't know about financials or REIT's, since I don't have any of them, but my own closed-end funds have started taking off big-time.  In my own portfolio, out of the eighteen CEF's that I own, ten are now up year-to-date and three of them are up double-digits.

Here are my winners as of April 30: AVK, EBI, EDD, EFL, ETY, EVV, GIM, NFJ, SGL and TEI.

GIM is up +9%, SGL +16%, TEI +17% and EFL is up an astronomical +34%.

And all these winners are paying substantial distributions: for example, GIM is paying 11.65%, EDD 11.12%.and ETY 10.26.

Jagor