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Morning Links 1-27
Note: Apologies for no links yesterday. Busy day writing columns!
SEC to vote on new money fund rules (Johnson, WSJ) Unfortunately, the SEC won't do away with $1 NAVs, price fluctuations will be published on a 60 day lag. So investors will continue to treat money funds as cash equivalents, even though they aren't, and the systemic risk they pose won't really go away.
Fed weighs interest on reserves as new benchmark (Lanman, Bloomberg) This will be a key interest rate to watch whether or not the Fed makes it the benchmark. The expansion of the Fed's balance sheet over the past year+ has stuffed banks full of excess reserves, reserves that banks will lend out if the economy -- and loan demand -- picks up. The Fed needs to keep those excess reserves sequestered in order to prevent inflation. To do so, it may have to pay higher rates. For a fuller explanation see this previous column.
Failed Senate vote on budget commission shows difficulty in cutting deficits (Faler, Bloomberg) So much for a fiscal commission based on the base-closing commission...
After three months, only 35 subscriptions to Newsday's website (Koblin, NY Observer) Print subscribers get free online access. But this is still not a good showing for selling online only subscriptions. The NYT needn't worry that it's pick up will be this small when they put up their pay wall. I, for one, will pay for their content, as I pay for WSJ. I 'd subscribe to FT too if their website wasn't so slow...
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