Capital Flow Watch » Debt http://www.capital-flow-watch.net Conservative economic commentary from the top-down Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Investors move to money market funds - Liquidity preference 2005http://www.capital-flow-watch.net/2006/03/12/investors-move-to-money-market-funds-2005/ http://www.capital-flow-watch.net/2006/03/12/investors-move-to-money-market-funds-2005/#comments Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:56:52 +0000 John Schroy http://capital-flow-analysis.info/capital-flow-watch/archives/106 Short-term safetyFor 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.]]> http://www.capital-flow-watch.net/2006/03/12/investors-move-to-money-market-funds-2005/feed/ 0