It is considered as safe.
Even auction-rate securities, arcane investments usually considered as safe as cash, have stumbled.
Such funds, totaling $3.4 trillion in assets, are held by tens of millions of individuals and are traditionally considered as safe as bank deposits.
Margot Wallström, the top European official for the environment, who made the announcement on Monday, said in a statement that the corn, known as NK603 maize, had been rigorously tested and was considered "as safe as any conventional maize".
These investments used to be considered as safe as houses as they were designed to protect investors from big swings in the market, partly through investing in a wide spread of assets, and partly via a 'smoothing' mechanism.
SOME well-heeled investors got a big jolt from Goldman Sachs this week: Goldman, the most celebrated bank on Wall Street, refused to let them withdraw money from investments that they had considered as safe as cash.
Investor confidence in money funds, long considered as safe as bank deposits, was shaken on Sept. 16 when losses at a multibillion-dollar money fund set off weeks of withdrawals.
But both are considered as safe as draft picks can be, the antithesis of the last time two quarterbacks were so tightly bunched, when Manning and Ryan Leaf sat atop the 1998 draft, with wildly different results.
Money-market funds, totaling some $3 trillion that are held by tens of millions of individuals and traditionally considered as safe as bank deposits, had come under pressure in recent days as investors began to pull money out faster than the funds could sell of assets.
Although considered as safe, facial filler injections are associated with several complications.
Triptans are selective serotonin 5-HT1B/1D receptor agonists, generally considered as safe and effective acute migraine drugs [2, 3].
