You wonder how many money funds that are held in this country, for example, held Greek bonds.
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In gold, managed-money funds cut 11, 662 gross longs and 5, 740 gross shorts, reducing their net-long position to 195, 372 contracts.
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In gold, managed-money funds added 5, 090 gross longs and 41 gross shorts, lifting their net-long position to 151, 347 contracts.
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In gold, managed-money funds added 7, 200 gross longs and 1, 423 gross shorts, raising their net-long position to 195, 647 contracts.
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In gold, managed-money funds significantly increased their gross longs and cut gross shorts, lifting their net-long position to 238, 319 contracts.
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In gold, managed-money funds cut 3, 724 gross longs and added 223 gross shorts, reducing their net-long position to 127, 689 contracts.
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Money funds, with robust credit departments that do not simply rely on ratings, are better placed than corporate treasurers to provide this.
Winning brings in money, and the money funds the ability to win.
Some see the ads, emails and tweets this money funds as important expressions of free speech, signs of an engaged and argumentative democracy.
In some ways, money funds created a virtuous circle for themselves.
Money funds have also benefited from a withering of the competition.
Goldman money funds the intervention through a social services provider, MDRC, who designs and oversees the city-run counseling and personal responsibility program for imprisoned adolescents.
By the end of 2007, money funds held a record 31% of corporate America's short-term assets, a share that is thought to have continued rising this year.
In the triparty repo market, primary dealers and other large banks and broker-dealers obtain very large amounts of secured financing from money funds and other short-term, risk-averse investors.
Investors have been exiting money funds since 2008, in part because of the Reserve Primary panic and in part because returns have plummeted along with short-term interest rates.
The problem with the money funds though, is that while they can buy it, their fears that they can't turn around and sell it if another crisis hits.
Managed-money funds held net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices, totaling 35, 159 contracts on the Comex as of Feb. 15, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed last week.
Ultra-short bond funds and enhanced-cash funds, which touted themselves as cash alternatives but invested in spicier debt than true money funds are allowed to, have fallen by the wayside.
That flash point in September 2008 caused the U.S. Treasury to put a floor under money market funds, effectively guaranteeing assets held in money funds prior to the announcement.
This is why so many money market funds have paid no interest since the beginning of the year, and one of two reasons its time to start selling money market funds.
This cartel is further aided by government laws and regulations that require, in various instances, insurance companies, money funds, banks and other institutions to hold only those debt securities rated by these agencies.
When one fund broke that promise after Lehman Brothers collapsed, the run on money funds threatened to do so much damage to the credit markets that the Fed felt compelled to step in.
Ms. McCLANAHAN: Well, the safest thing, especially for short-term money, is to put into CDs - and I would just use short-term CDs right now interest rates being so low - you could use money market funds, money market mutual funds.
Just in the last two months, individual investors have been putting money back into stock mutual funds from money market funds, according to figures from the Investment Company Institute.
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All of the other banks, the hedge funds, money market funds and so on.
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Lastly, after the anxiety over Greek elections subside, and the realities of low interest rates for a very long time setting in with investors, I think there will be a significant outflow from bonds, bond funds and money market funds into commodities and stocks.
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