Banks generally will not lend funds in the money market at an interest rate lower than the rate they can earn risk-free at the Federal Reserve.

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It is the refinancing rate that usually dictates average money market interest rates with the deposit facility rate acting as a lower floor.

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But volumes will fall because corporate customers will no longer need to hold accounts in several currencies, and banks will no longer be able to use the money market to profit from interest-rate differentials between euro-zone currencies.

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These pay roughly the same interest rate as the money-market accounts it previously used, but offer the benefit of federal deposit insurance.

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Money market funds remain large, and continue to invest in securities subject to interest rate and credit risk.

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In fact, the existence of LSAs and RSAs will create pressure to make all investment income and gains tax free, just as money market funds in the mid-1970s ended Washington's long-standing interest-rate controls for bank deposits.

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The low interest rate environment also makes holding gold funds better than holding cash or money market funds, he says.

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They - just like Mr. Weller said, they're really getting into a lot of different types of loans to make the cost of money, i.e. interest rate, more favorable for them on the entering into the market.

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My point here is that open market purchases and the associated expansion of money growth rate are accepted as normal or routine Fed policy so long as interest rates have some room to decline in the process.

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