0.71% Yields Prompt More Cash to Leave Money Funds

Yields on taxable money market funds remained mired at record lows in the week ended April 29, according to Money Fund Report. This prompted investors to pull almost $24 billion in cash from the funds, Reuters reports.

The average seven-day simple and compound yields on taxable money funds were unchanged at 0.71%, according to Money Fund Report, published by iMoneyNet. For tax-free money funds, the average seven-day simple and compound yields rose to 0.77% from 0.69% a week earlier.

Money fund yields track the Federal Reserve's key lending rate, now at a four-decade low of 1.25%.

Total taxable assets fell by about $23.7 billion to $1.85 trillion, while tax-free fund assets declined by $3.6 billion to $284.5 billion. Overall fund assets fell by $27.3 billion to $2.13 trillion.

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