BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Money Market
- a country's financial center, where foreign currency and domestic and foreign bills are bought and sold
- the wholesale market for short-term debt instruments and money market instruments. New York is the major money market center followed by London and Tokyo.
Wiktionary Definition for: Money Market
- A market for trading short-term debt instruments, such as bonds and certificates.
Additional Resources
- D-Day for Money Market Fund Guarantee
- Uncle Sam's guarantee for money-market funds expires today. This emergency measure from "The Week That Shook Wall Street" cue the appropriate scary music, was one of the few decisions that actually calmed ordinary investors at the time. Money market mutual funds were created in 1970 to allow...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- The Money Market
- This tutorial discusses about Fixed Income. The money market is a fixed income market, similar to the bond market. The major difference is the money market is a securities market dealing in short-term debt and monetary instruments. That sounds simple enough, so why do most brokers not offer you the...
- White papers
- Money market mutual funds
- In addition to checking and savings deposits and CDs, banks often offer investments in mutual funds. While mutual funds are often used to invest in stocks and bonds, a major chunk of total assets is invested in money market funds. Unlike FDIC-insured deposits, money market funds are not federally insured...
- White papers
- Introduction to Money Market Mutual Funds
- Money market mutual funds have made money market investing accessible to individual retail investors. Money market mutual funds are among the safest and most liquid financial instruments widely available. Moreover, money market funds offer modest initial investment requirements and provide simple procedures for withdrawing funds by check or transfer to...
- White papers 2004-08-11
- The Weiss Treasury Only Money Market Fund -- A Wise Choice for Capital Preservation, Liquidity and Current Income for Financial Market Turmoil
- Weiss Capital Securities, Inc., a full-service, registered broker-dealer announced today that it has chosen not to participate in the U.S. Treasury's temporary money market fund guarantee program for its Weiss Treasury Only Money Market Fund (Symbol: WEOXX). On September 19, 2008 the U.S. Treasury announced a temporary money market...
- Research articles 2008-10-17
- American Beacon U.S. Government Select Fund Ranked Top Institutional and AAA-Rated U.S. Government Money Market Fund for 2007
- American Beacon Advisors, Inc., manager of the American Beacon Funds, is pleased to report that the American Beacon U.S. Government Money Market Select Fund (NASDAQ: AAOXX) has won a Money Fund ReportTM Award as the #1 institutional U.S. Government money market fund out of a universe of 231 unrestricted funds...
- Research articles 2008-03-13
- Money Market Funds' Lehman Exposure
- FP Trading Desk submits: While some smaller money market funds have broken the buck as a result of their exposure to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. LEH, many publicly traded money managers appear to have little or no exposure. “Breaking the buck” occurs when a fund’s net asset value falls...
- External links 2008-09-17
- Default coverage for money market funds
- Zurich and others begin offering protection to money market funds and their depositors When the infamous bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he continued to rob banks, he replied simply, "Because that's where the money is." Today a lot of money-liquid assets of ordinary citizens and businesses-is no longer...
- Research articles 1999-03-01
- Money market investors to get extra assurance.(Fidelity Investments Inc., Marsh and McLennan Inc. money market insurance)
- Insurance against potential defaults for money market fund investors will be offered by Fidelity Investments Inc and Marsh and McLennan Inc. A mutual insurance company which will cover up to $100 mil. in money market fund losses is being created by Fidelity Investments to cover credit default, but not interest...
- Research articles 1996-09-02
- FINRA Alerts Investors of U.S. Treasury Program to Guarantee Money Market Funds that "Break the Buck"
- WASHINGTON -- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA today issued an Investor Alert to notify the investing public of the U.S. Treasury Department's Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds. The Treasury Department's program, which opened Sept. 29, protects money held in participating money market funds as of Sept. 19...
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- Lake Forest Money Market Fund ranked number one in nation
- LAKE FOREST, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 5, 1996--Lake Forest Money Market Fund was the highest yielding U.S. Government money market fund in the nation for the week ended Jan. 2, 1996, according to IBC's Money Fund Report, an Ashland, Mass. newsletter.The seven-day compound yield was 5.79% while the average for all funds...
- Research articles 1996-01-05
- Wilmington Trust Money Market Fund Gains Top Ratings; Moody's, Standard & Poor's Note Conservative Management, Internal Controls in Awarding Their Highest Designations
- WILMINGTON, Del. -- Wilmington Trust announced that two leading rating agencies, Moody's Investor Service and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, have assigned their top money market fund ratings to WT Investment Trust I Prime Money Market Series, a $2 billion money market mutual fund structured as a master portfolio. Wilmington...
- Research articles 2004-10-27
- Short Interests: S&P maintains status quo on money market funds.(News)
- Byline: David Hoffman, Rick Miller and Sara Hansard Money market fund investors should consider themselves lucky. Money funds whose management companies have been linked to allegations of late trading and market timing haven't been harmed ...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Arsenic is low-fat too: lessons from the demise of Community Bankers U.S. Government Money Market Fund.
- The folding of the Community Bankers US Government Money Market Fund, the first money market fund to fail due to derivatives exposure, is not a unique situation. Other banks have portfolios sold as "agency" securities that offered higher "yThe folding of the Community Bankers US Government Money Market Fund, the...
- Research articles 1994-12-01
- Ford Money-Market Account.(Ford Motor Credit Co.)(Brief Article)
- FORD MONEY-MARKET ACCOUNT Ford's MMA is paying a higher yield than the money-market funds listed in the Investing for Income section. What's up? The name is a bit misleading. The Ford account, which is offered through Ford Motor Credit (the carmaker's financing...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Lake Forest Money Market Fund ranked number one in nation
- LAKE FOREST, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 6, 1996--Lake Forest Money Market Fund was the highest yielding U.S. Government money market fund in the nation for the week ended March 5, 1996, according to IBC's Money Fund Report, an Ashland, Mass. newsletter.The seven-day compound yield was 5.28 percent while the average for all...
- Research articles 1996-03-06
- Lake Forest Money Market Fund No. 1 in nation
- LAKE FOREST, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 21, 1996--Lake Forest Money Market Fund was the highest yielding U.S. government money market fund in the nation for the week ended March 19, 1996, according to IBC's Money Fund Report, an Ashland, Mass. newsletter.The seven-day compound yield was 5.43 percent while the average for all...
- Research articles 1996-03-21
- Lake Forest Money Market Fund No. 1 in nation
- LAKE FOREST, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 4, 1996--Lake Forest Money Market Fund was the highest yielding U.S. Government money market fund in the nation for the week ended April 2, 1996, according to IBC's Money Fund Report, an Ashland, Mass. newsletter.The seven-day compound yield was 5.39 percent while the average for all...
- Research articles 1996-04-04
- Lake Forest Money Market Fund No. 1 in nation
- LAKE FOREST, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 11, 1996--Lake Forest Money Market Fund was the highest yielding U.S. Government money market fund in the nation for the week ended April 9, 1996, according to IBC's Money Fund Report, an Ashland, MA newsletter.The seven-day compound yield was 5.23 percent while the average for all...
- Research articles 1996-04-11
- Lake Forest Money Market Fund No. 1 in nation
- LAKE FOREST, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 18, 1996--Lake Forest Money Market Fund was the highest yielding U.S. government securities money market fund in the nation for the week ended April 16, 1996, according to IBC's Money Fund Report, an Ashland, Mass. newsletter.The seven-day compound yield was 5.24 percent while the average for...
- Research articles 1996-04-18
