Confidence in safe-haven status of money market funds weakens

Money market funds in the US suffered an estimated $197bn of net outflows last week as confidence in their safe-haven status weakened after one fund “broke the buck” and others closed.

The outflows mark a new and potentially dangerous phase for the $3,400bn money market fund industry as continued redemptions could result in forced selling of their securities into illiquid bond markets.

Some money market fund operators are facing the prospect of either closing funds to halt redemptions or engineering more costly bail-outs of their funds.

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