money market

the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.

Origin of money market

First recorded in 1925–30

And since investors tend to treat money-market funds like cash, it makes sense for funds to maintain maximum flexibility.

Panic Sets In With the Davos Crowd |Daniel Gross |October 14, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The money-market fund industry nearly collapsed, as many money-market funds had Lehman Brothers commercial paper.

Debt-Limit Disaster Is Exponentially Worse Than 2008 Lehman Debacle |Daniel Gross |October 8, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
But she challenged the lack of oversight on money-market funds that the public believes are safe.

Former Wall Street Executive Sallie Krawcheck Critiques Financial Reform Policy |Allan Dodds Frank |October 16, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Here they teach the young figures first, as though all of life was a money-market.

In The Boyhood of Lincoln |Hezekiah Butterworth

This ran on the subject of the money-market, with which the young man boasted some practical acquaintance.

The Whirlpool |George Gissing
They believe in the Laws and the Money-market and Respectability.

Three Plays by Granville-Barker |Harley Granville-Barker
To use the language of the money-market, there was a temporary “slump” in cable shares.

The Romance of Modern Invention |Archibald Williams
A money-market term for the price paid in order to obtain immediate realization of a bill not yet due.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 |Various

money market

finance the financial institutions dealing with short-term loans and capital and with foreign exchange Compare capital market

money market

A collective term for the many markets in which funds that are loaned for short periods to businesses or to governments are bought and sold.