Fed jumps in for money-market funds

Courtesy Marketplace  Tue, 10/21/2008 - 10:19

Jittery investors pulled half a trillion dollars out of money-market funds in the past few months, siphoning out another source of credit.

It's Fed to the rescue again, though, Senior Business Correspondent Bob Moon reports,


 

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