Money Fund Assets Flat in Latest Week

Assets of money market mutual funds scarcely budged in the week ended Oct. 23.

The total, $877.39 billion, was up just five-hundredths of 1% from a week earlier.

Assets in the 659 retail money market funds rose 1.5%, to $3.85 billion. The 403 taxable funds among them grew 1.38%, to $488.38 billion.

Institutional money market funds dipped 1.2%, to $279.46 billion. Assets in the group's 248 taxable funds fell 1.2%, to $250.65 billion; the 64 tax- exempt portfolios dipped 1.4%, to $28.80 billion.

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