{"id":455877,"date":"2010-03-21T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/2010\/03\/21\/markets-financial-industry-etfs-and-gold-moodys-and-munis-treasuries-buyers-money-funds-shrink\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T21:32:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:32:33","slug":"markets-financial-industry-etfs-and-gold-moody%e2%80%99s-and-munis-treasuries-buyers-money-funds-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/455877","title":{"rendered":"Markets: Financial Industry, ETFs and Gold, Moody\u2019s and Munis, Treasuries Buyers, Money Funds Shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billcoppedge.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"bill-coppedge-dec09-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bill-coppedge-dec09-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/billcoppedgedec09127.jpg\" width=\"89\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"original content selection by MortgageNewsClips.com\" border=\"0\" alt=\"original content selection by MortgageNewsClips.com\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/originalcontentselectionbyMortgageNewsClips.com27.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-finance-and-insurance-value-added-asa-percent-of-gdp-2010-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"bi2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bi2\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bi2.gif\" width=\"326\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>&#160;&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessinsiderclusterstock6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"business-insider-clusterstock\" border=\"0\" alt=\"business-insider-clusterstock\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessinsiderclusterstock_thumb6.gif\" width=\"131\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>bi2&#160; <strong>CHART OF THE DAY: Why The Financial Industry Still Has WAY More To Shrink<\/strong>     <br \/>Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-finance-and-insurance-value-added-asa-percent-of-gdp-2010-3\">Clusterstock at Business Insider<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-how-etfs-took-the-gold-market-hostage-and-wont-let-go-2010-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"cluster1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cluster1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cluster1.gif\" width=\"326\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessinsiderclusterstock6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"business-insider-clusterstock\" border=\"0\" alt=\"business-insider-clusterstock\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessinsiderclusterstock_thumb6.gif\" width=\"131\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHART OF THE DAY: How ETFs Took The Gold Market Hostage And Won&#8217;t Let Go<\/strong> &#8211; Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova &#8211; &#8230; While the chart isn&#8217;t complete proof, it is at least a <strong>strong indication that a substantial part of gold&#8217;s price rise since 2002 has been due to the birth of exchange traded funds<\/strong> and the new gold demand they created by letting anybody trade gold as easily as a stock &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-how-etfs-took-the-gold-market-hostage-and-wont-let-go-2010-3\">Clusterstock at Business Insider<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/forbes_home_logo2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; 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