Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The market or field for the investment or employment of money; the sphere within which financial operations are carried on.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of money market.

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Examples

  • The Lombard rate is closely watched by the credit markets because it serves as a ceiling for short-term money-market rates.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • The Lombard rate is closely watched by the credit markets because it serves as a ceiling for short-term money-market rates.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • Stock funds, like stock transactions themselves, are more lucrative to broker-dealers than are short-term money-market investments and most fixed-income products.

    unknown title 2011

  • Stock funds, like stock transactions themselves, are more lucrative to broker-dealers than are short-term money-market investments and most fixed-income products.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • The Fed has worried that removing the payment would hurt vulnerable parts of the financial system—namely money-market funds, which would struggle to make profits in a world where interest rates are almost zero.

    New Fee to Bank Cash Liz Rappaport 2011

  • Non-Japanese investors also bought ¥1.477 trillion in Japanese money-market instruments last week.

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011

  • For money-market funds, liquidity is everything: a failure to pay risks a new Lehman-like run.

    The Dangers of a Default Position Richard Barley 2011

  • U.S. money-market funds have been reducing their exposure to euro-zone bank debt.

    As Politicians Debate, Market Is Calling the Shots on Greece Richard Barley 2011

  • Schwab and its managers marketed YieldPlus as a cash alternative with only slightly more risk than a money-market fund, regulators said, even though it invested heavily in mortgage-backed securities and other holdings with significant credit risk.

    Schwab Pays in YieldPlus Settlement Eleanor Laise 2011

  • Short-term interbank rates have kicked up; the one-week rate rose to 4.6% in early June from 3% at the beginning of May, helping to explain the PBOC's move to ease money-market conditions.

    Test of Nerve on China's Inflation Tom Orlik 2011

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