Major firms are willing to consider a compromise on a key issue delaying a new regulatory plan for the $2.6 trillion money-market mutual-fund industry.
The electronic markets keep getting their wires crossed—and investors are tired of getting shocked. Two years ago, in the "flash crash" of May 6, 2010, U.S. stocks lost $1 trillion in roughly 20 minutes. Two months ago, BATS Global Markets, ...
Assets in money-market funds rose by $1.26 billion in the week ended Wednesday as taxable nongovernment funds' inflows outpaced outflows from taxable government funds and tax-exempt funds, according to the Investment Company Institute.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro on Friday defended her decision to bring new regulations to the $2.5 trillion money-market fund industry by reminding a reluctant audience of the recent ...
NEW YORK—U.S. Treasury prices rose as investors opted to head into the long holiday weekend with their money in the safe-haven bond market. The market rounds out the session early at 2 p.m. EDT and will remain closed Monday for Memorial Day. ...
Long-term mutual funds had estimated inflows of $3.9 billion in the latest week as investors added more money to bond and hybrid funds, while U.S. stocks continued to decline, the Investment Company Institute said.
In the fall of 2008, the world learned what financial stability is, through its absence. Over a few short weeks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac entered federal conservatorship, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was purchased ...
LONDON—Futures contracts tied to European money-market rates are no longer predicting further declines this year in funding costs for banks as growing talk of a potential Greek exit from the euro zone sparks unease in financial markets.
WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are increasingly worried that the Securities and Exchange Commission could fail to complete more-stringent rules on money-market mutual funds, forcing officials to confront how else to rein in the $2.6 trillion ...
The money-market fund industry remains a significant source of risk for the U.S. economy, and is in need of major reform, a U.S. central bank official said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday pressed the nation’s securities regulator over soon-to-be-proposed reforms to the $2.5 trillion money market fund industry, arguing that they may hurt liquidity for retail ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Investors are reeling from Europe’s deepening economic crisis, but they may soon find themselves battered closer to home as the U.S. economy closes in on another debt-ceiling debate and teeters toward the edge of ...
European stock markets have been tumbling all week over fears of the damage a Greek exit from the euro zone could do to the single currency and even the European Union. Yet through it all, Germany's borrowing costs keep going down—so much ...
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The head of the nation’s mutual-fund industry association on Wednesday took aim at proposed rules on commodities and money-market funds.
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