money market funds

The Cowardly Portfolio is a broadly diversified mix of stocks, bonds and money market funds designed to appeal to our inner chicken.

If you jettison stocks from your portfolio in favor of bonds and money market funds, it will take much longer to reach your savings goals.

If the U.S. defaults on its debt, how would money funds fare? Not so well. About 20% of the funds' holdings are T-bills.

Interest rates on low-risk investments, such as certificates of deposit and money market funds, are abysmally low.

The good news? This situation probably won't last. As the economy recovers, interest rates are expected to rise.

In the meantime, investors can try to get the most out of some popular low-risk investments.

The S.E.C. proposed more stringent rules for money market funds to avert runs when they “break the buck.”.

Money market funds, cash invested in short-term debt, used to be pretty reliable places for investors who wanted to get moderate returns.

But with interest rates near zero, yields on funds are tumbling. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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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,

Over the past couple of weeks, the interest rate banks charge each other for short-term loans has shot up dramatically.

Now, rates for money-market funds -- what companies use to borrow for day-to-day operations -- are soaring as well.

Jeremy Hobson reports.

Investors who stash their cash in money market funds, certificates of deposit or fixed-rate annuities aren't looking for big gains.

They just want to protect their principal and earn a little bit of interest.