The Lazard fund now has one-third of its portfolio in money market securities of less-developed countries, some 33 as of last count.
So the couple depended on his monthly Social Security check of less than $600.
Ms. Jones is still full of canny ways to bridge the gap between her Social Security income of less than $1,200 a month and her exacting standards.
Given that electrical industry revenues in the United States totaled approximately $368.5 billion in 2008, according to the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, a one-time space weather security surcharge of less than 0.2% should amply fund the surge suppressor project.
By early 2007, MBIA was issuing insurance for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mortgage securities within less than two weeks of first being told of the pending transaction.
Just seven years ago, bond funds were bigger than money funds, which specialize in securities with lives of less than a year, like commercial paper.
This may not sound like much, but keep in mind that interest rates on United States Treasury securities with maturities of less than two years are currently less than 0.25 percent.
It said Wednesday that by June 2012 it would sell $400 billion in securities with remaining maturities of less than three years and buy roughly the same amount in securities with maturities longer than six years.
Enlargement has not been a zero-sum game in which more security for some is bought at the price of less security for others.
The market announced that Treasury securities with a maturity of less than a year would be accepted as margins for futures contracts only with a discount of 3 percent to their value, compared with a previous discount of 1 percent.
A security guard with wages of less than $300 a month, Mr. Ferreira has moved from one rickety shack to another, each worse than the last, as rents and property values have soared.
