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This category includes articles about financial instruments evidencing moneys owed by the issuer to the holder on terms as specified. [Capital Market Taxonomy]

Liquidity preference 2005

Investors move to money market funds

By John Schroy, on March 12th, 2006 | Leave a comment
Short-term safety

For the first year since 2001, investors moved back into money market mutual funds in 2005, with net sales of $127 billion.

The return of investors to money market funds was clearly the result of the Federal Reserve policy of increasing short-term interest rates, combined with the flattening of the yield curve due to buying pressure on longer-term fixed income securities resulting from the trade deficit.

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