The run on prime MMMFs caused further disruption to already stressed short term corporate credit markets. Though many of the redemptions from prime MMMFs flowed into Treasury and Government MMMFs, and thus MMMF assets in aggregate fell less sharply than those of prime MMMFs, the Treasury and Government funds were not eligible to purchase many of the corporate issues that prime MMMFs were selling or ceasing to roll over. Unprecedented emergency facilities established by the Treasury and Federal Reserve ultimately slowed redemptions from prime MMMFs and helped maintain liquidity in the short term corporate funding markets
