It has an expense ratio of 0.95%, which is high for most ETFs, though not for short Treasury funds.
Vanguard does offer managed pure U.S. Treasury funds in similar maturity ranges.
The few bright spots in the first half were safe havens: gold and U.S. Treasury funds each gained more than 10% through June.
It's considering two alternatives: First, allow corporations (which include nonprofits) and unions to use their treasury funds to pay for issue ads, but require that this funding be reported to the FEC.
Federal law has banned donations from corporate treasury funds since 1907 in part because individuals could use a welter of corporations to disguise their personal contributions to candidates, and evade the limits at issue in McCutcheon.
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The Ninth Circuit decision denying VSP tax-exempt status threatens to "divert to the federal treasury funds from the Sight for Students program, " depriving the poor kids and jeopardizing their eye care, the charities argue in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Despite rumors that the PPIP will be completely abandoned, the Treasury and funds involved say the Fed's part of the plan is moving forward.
Since the beginning of the second quarter, U.S. Treasury bond funds have been money makers despite the fact that the underlying securities in the fund yield under 3% annually.
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Declining rates pushed up the value of bond investments, delivering an average 9.3% return for Treasury bond mutual funds.
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Other than gold and by default, silver, U.S. Treasury bond exchange traded funds were the biggest winners of the last two weeks.
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Such status would enable the company to access the Treasury's TARP funds.
It's just that when the Treasury is hungry for funds, it makes sense to go after those citizens who are hardworking and frugal.
Still, a blessing from the Treasury to release the funds is unlikely to be enough to completely turn around the fortunes of banks.
The Treasury earmarked some TARP funds to refinance homeowners facing foreclosure.
The good news for the dollar is that dollar-debt, such as money market funds and Treasury bonds, are the most liquid, hotly traded, high demand fixed income asset in the world.
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To caricature: if the world loves American Treasury bills but the funds would be more useful elsewhere, then the government should issue the bills, and use the proceeds to channel the funds where they are needed.
If suddenly investors -- and by the way, a lot of those investors are Americans who have Treasury bills, pension funds, et cetera -- if suddenly they started thinking that we might not pay them back on time, at the very least, at the bare minimum, they would charge a much higher interest rate to allow the United States to borrow money.
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Typically these days that means huge purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds by sovereign wealth funds.
One option is to buy funds that hold Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, whose returns are linked to the consumer-price index.
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In exchange for the payroll taxes that aren't paid out in benefits to current retirees in any given year, the trust funds got nonmarketable Treasury debt.
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Fayyad's first move was to consolidate the PA's funds into a single treasury account under his control.
The Sinn Fein MLA called for changes to the Treasury's methods for calculating funds to be allocated to government departments in Northern Ireland.
The Troubled Asset Relief Program expires Sunday, meaning the Treasury Secretary can commit no more funds from the bailout legislation Congress passed two years ago.
With barely enough cash in its coffers to pay pensions and public-sector salaries at the end of August, the finance ministry may raise short-term funds by selling extra treasury bills to the banks, squeezing cash-strapped local companies even harder.
Quantitative easing is when the Fed buys up a specific dollar volume of Treasury securities, regardless of the Fed Funds rate.
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If a suitable cy pres beneficiary cannot be located, the district court should consider escheating the funds to the United States Treasury.
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The cycle is such that funds will land in the Treasury eventually.
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This signal is further reinforced by the promise of the Treasury to tide over debt with emergency funds if need be, indicating the potential need for additional reliance on non-legislative bodies to substitute for Congressional policy change.
Two months ago, Congress granted the Treasury secretary unprecedented authority in using the TARP funds to help the system.
And I'm asking my Treasury Secretary to continue mobilizing the remaining TARP funds to facilitate lending to small businesses.
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