What Is Breaking the Buck? Breaking the buck occurs when the net asset value (NAV) of a money market fund falls below $1. Breaking the buck may happen when the money market fund's investment ...

Money funds are priced at $1 per share. If a fund were to fall below $1 per share -- a situation known as breaking the buck -- shareholders could lose money. This could happen if some of the fund ...

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The Reserve Primary fund jolted the financial world a year ago today when its share price dropped below $1 — "breaking the buck" as it's called. Money funds keep their share prices at $1 every ...

"Breaking the buck" is a rare black swan event, but it has happened before. In liquidating both stock and bond positions in their portfolios, investors have been piling into money market funds ...

The difference between the short-term guarantee and actual earnings would get factored into the next short-term guarantee, making the short-term guarantee reflect the actual asset performance over ...

Virtually all the recent clamor for tough new restrictions on money market mutual funds is bottomed on the experience of September 2008 when one fund "broke the buck" after Lehman Brothers was allowed ...

Dollar Tree is breaking the buck for good. The discount chain said Tuesday the majority of its $1 items will now be sold for $1.25. It began testing these higher prices points in September.

To prevent another instance of a money market fund's “breaking the buck,” the Securities and Exchange Commission is discussing placing capital requirements on such funds. The idea could trump ...

Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed tightened rules for money-market mutual funds that will require them to hold a reserve of assets that could be easily sold and to invest only in the ...