The "cash trap" is caused by investors flocking to high-yield, risk-free assets due to Fed rate hikes. This influx into money market funds could reverse if rates drop. When rates fall, investors may ...

Americans have poured money into cash-like investments since the Fed began raising interest rates, pushing money-market fund assets to a record $6.12 trillion. Now, Wall Street traders are betting ...

Investors who have piled into cash risk being stuck watching markets rally from the sidelines, as money in a traditional portfolio of stocks and bonds could double in just over a decade, according to ...

Falling interest rates have advisors confronting a seemingly counterproductive phenomenon: Even as the returns that can be made on cash holdings dwindle, investors keep plowing into money markets ...

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