{"id":10163,"date":"2008-12-15T02:12:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T02:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/money_market_fund_yields_may_fall_to_less_than_zero\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T02:12:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T02:12:48","slug":"money_market_fund_yields_may_fall_to_less_than_zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10163","title":{"rendered":"Money-Market Fund Yields May Fall to Less Than Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors in money-market mutual funds that focus on U.S. Treasuries may lose money for the first time if the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates next week and yields become too small to cover expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Record-low yields on government debt have already led money-market funds to waive fees to keep returns positive. If the Federal Open Markets Committee, as expected, cuts its target rate, some Treasury funds may allow returns to turn negative, said Peter Crane, president of Crane Data LLC, a money-fund research firm in Westborough, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has ever paid above and beyond their interest income to be in a fund,\u201d\u009d Crane said. \u201cBut if we see another cut, we\u2019ll likely see negative yields.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=axHG.5Dvl3P4&#038;refer=home\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors in money-market mutual funds that focus on U.S. Treasuries may lose money for the first time if the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates next week and yields become too small to cover expenses. Record-low yields on government debt have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10163\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,595,149,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}