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Four BlackRock Closed-End Funds Announce Redemption of Auction Rate Preferred Shares

^{Published on 2011-04-25 15:30:52 - Market Wire}
 

NEW YORK--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--BlackRock Advisors, LLC today announced that BlackRock MuniYield California Quality Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MCA), BlackRock MuniYield New Jersey Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MYJ), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MYN) and BlackRock MuniYield Michigan Quality Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MIY) (each, a aFunda and collectively, the aFundsa) intend to redeem all of their outstanding auction rate preferred shares (aARPSa) for each series listed below, at the liquidation preference of $25,000 per share, together with accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date, if applicable. These redemptions will be funded by proceeds received from the issuance of Variable Rate Demand Preferred Shares, as announced on April 21, 2011.

Please see redemption details for each Funda™s ARPS below.

* In order to comply with the terms of its governing documents, redemption details for MCA Series A28 (CUSIP 09254N202) will be announced on May 9, 2011.

BlackRock will continue to keep market participants and shareholders informed of its closed-end fundsa™ progress to redeem ARPS via press releases and on BlackRocka™s website at [ www.blackrock.com ].

About BlackRock

BlackRock is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. At March 31, 2011, BlackRocka™s assets under management were $3.648 trillion. BlackRock offers products that span the risk spectrum to meet clientsa™ needs, including active, enhanced and index strategies across markets and asset classes. Products are offered in a variety of structures including separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares^®(exchange-traded funds), and other pooled investment vehicles. BlackRock also offers risk management, advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions^®. Headquartered in New York City, as of March 31, 2011, the firm has approximately 9,300 employees in 26 countries and a major presence in key global markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East and Africa. For additional information, please visit the firma™s website at [ www.blackrock.com ].

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release, and other statements that BlackRock may make, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, with respect to BlackRocka™s future financial or business performance, strategies or expectations. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as atrend,a apotential,a aopportunity,a apipeline,a abelieve,a acomfortable,a aexpect,a aanticipate,a acurrent,a aintention,a aestimate,a aposition,a aassume,a aoutlook,a acontinue,a aremain,a amaintain,a asustain,a aseek,a aachieve,a and similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as awill,a awould,a ashould,a acould,a amaya or similar expressions.

BlackRock cautions that forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and BlackRock assumes no duty to and does not undertake to update forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements and future results could differ materially from historical performance.

With respect to the Fund, the following factors, among others, could cause actual events to differ materially from forward-looking statements or historical performance: (1) changes and volatility in political, economic or industry conditions, the interest rate environment, foreign exchange rates or financial and capital markets, which could result in changes in demand for the Fund or in the Funda™s net asset value; (2) the relative and absolute investment performance of the Fund and its investments; (3) the impact of increased competition; (4) the unfavorable resolution of any legal proceedings; (5) the extent and timing of any distributions or share repurchases; (6) the impact, extent and timing of technological changes; (7) the impact of legislative and regulatory actions and reforms, including the recently approved Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and regulatory, supervisory or enforcement actions of government agencies relating to the Fund or BlackRock, as applicable; (8) terrorist activities, international hostilities and natural disasters, which may adversely affect the general economy, domestic and local financial and capital markets, specific industries or BlackRock; (9) BlackRocka™s ability to attract and retain highly talented professionals; (10) BlackRocka™s success in maintaining secondary market support for the Fund; (11) the impact of BlackRock electing to provide support to its products from time to time; (12) the impact of problems at other financial institutions or the failure or negative performance of products at other financial institutions; and (13) the ability of BlackRock to integrate the operations of Barclays Global Investors.

The Annual and Semi-Annual Reports and other regulatory filings of the Fund with the Securities and Exchange Commission (aSECa) are accessible on the SEC's website at [ www.sec.gov ]and on BlackRocka™s website at [ www.blackrock.com ], and may discuss these or other factors that affect the Fund. The information contained on our website is not a part of this press release.