Article: Safe, low-yield investments have their day; People crowd into money market, bond funds; rout could mean everyone loses.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

These are the days of Alexandra Lebenthal's dreams. As stocks take an almost daily drubbing, more and more investors are anxiously searching for safer havens. For many, that means investments with low but dependable yields, like money market funds and the tax-free municipal bonds that Ms. Lebenthal has been hawking on the radio for years. ``I would say that our business is probably up 25%,'' says Ms. Lebenthal, president of Lebenthal & Co. ``I have to assume that it is related to market volatility.'' The first signs of a turnaround are emerging for all sorts of financial companies that sat stranded on the sidelines for the past decade as the major stock indices soared. ...

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