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abhishek542000
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Money Market Funds

October 3rd, 2008, 8:50 pm

What will happen to the money market funds in this environment? Will we see more funds breaking the buck?RegardsAbhishek
 
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Traden4Alpha
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October 4th, 2008, 3:04 am

It's not likely in the U.S. after the Treasury Dept promised to support MMF.
 
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Martinghoul
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October 4th, 2008, 1:26 pm

What will be interesting is what will happen to the MMFs when/if Fed Funds go to 1%. That might pose quite a challenge.
 
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nazzdack
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October 6th, 2008, 4:27 am

If the Fed Funds rate were to get down to ~0.75 basis points, MMF's would stop paying out interest to fundholders because they won't be able to cover their own expenses at a lower rate.