Definition of money market
: the trade in short-term negotiable instruments (such as certificates of deposit or U.S. Treasury securities)
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Yet a number of entrepreneurs have placed 100 percent of their money in one item (stock, mutual fund, money market, certificate of deposit).
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If investing was a highway, stocks would be the fast lane, bonds would be the middle lane, and money markets would be the slow lane.
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The company, in which Alibaba plans to acquire a one-third stake, controls the country’s premier mobile payments service and money market fund, and has moved deeper into areas from consumer lending to credit scoring.
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The central bank increased key short-term interest rates twice last year and kept liquidity relatively tight in the money markets.
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Libor, this measure of how much banks charge to lend to each other, is the rate that shot-up during the crisis when a complete failure of trust between banks froze the money markets.
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Historically, stocks outperform bonds (and CDs, money markets) by about double over the long term.
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The process is now playing out in some normally sleepy corners of the world’s financial markets, such as those for short-term debt, known as the money markets.
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Open a money market or high interest savings account and start pumping a few bucks each paycheck toward it.
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First Known Use of money market
1950
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legal Definition of money market
: the trade in short-term negotiable instruments (as certificates of deposit or U.S. Treasury securities)
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