They are putting their money into cash or money-market funds, rather than equities or corporate bonds.
Its reading on the seven-day yield for taxable-money-market funds was 0.03% for the 18th consecutive week.
M2 includes M1 in addition to all time-related deposits, savings deposits, and non-institutional money-market funds.
Much of the money flowing into stocks and bonds has come out of money-market funds.
It added that OFI's management fees are lower than those of its conventional money-market funds.
The same may be true in America, where money-market funds are already offering paltry returns.
Holders of these assets ranged from the world's biggest banks to retired people's money-market funds.
Such money used to be invested in bank deposits, either directly or indirectly via money-market funds.
Nor were concrete proposals offered on money-market funds, runs on which intensified the trauma following Lehman's demise.
Holders of money-market funds would also see their accounts grow, although not as much as stable-value accounts.
True, Americans are less likely these days to keep their savings in the bank, preferring money-market funds.
Popular with investors in times of market upheaval, they have generally delivered substantially higher yields than money-market funds.
For savers, this means regular bank deposits, money-market funds and short-term Treasurys effectively lose them money each year.
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Three out of five of Ms. Schapiro's fellow commissioners have expressed reluctance to support additional reforms for money-market funds.
Can the Fed afford to get entwined with hedge funds that are big derivatives counterparties or embattled money-market funds?
The template is its September 19th announcement that it would finance banks' purchases of asset-backed commercial paper from money-market funds.
Either way there is plenty of uncertainty enough for money-market funds to prefer to reduce rather than increase their exposure to banks.
Instead, investors are withdrawing from money-market funds, which are often used as a parking spot for cash, according to EPFR Global.
Recreating its backstops for money-market funds, commercial paper and asset-backed securities might require such stringent conditions that no one would participate.
For example: Beal thinks the federal bailout of money-market funds was necessary.
Wherever the state has extended its guarantee, as it did with money-market funds, it will now have to extend its oversight too.
The Treasury can no longer use its foreign-exchange account to backstop money-market funds worrying, given the exposure of money-market funds to European banks.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed numerous changes to this end, covering securities registration, money-market funds and capital standards for brokers.
Money-market funds are a specialized kind of mutual fund that is restricted to investing in very short-term securities with little chance of default.
Financial firms fear further fallout from the recent, potentially catastrophic run on money-market funds that prompted the government to step in with guarantees.
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American money-market funds, a big source of short-term funding for European banks, are already said to be trimming their exposures to French banks.
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Money-market funds appeared related to the struggling SIV securities although the correlation wasn't clear from the filing and analysts didn't return calls for comment.
The banks and insurers who sold money-market funds had promised their investors that, as with bank deposits, they would at least get their money back.
Many investors will continue to want to use them as a crutch: witness money-market funds' success in fending off proposals to reduce their reliance on ratings.
Morgan Stanley had to prop up its money-market funds in September after fears regarding the deteriorating credit market caused clients to pull billions from their accounts.
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