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• COMMERCIAL PAPER
  
  To help meet their immediate needs for cash, banks and corporations sometimes issue unsecured, short-term debt instruments known as commercial paper. Commercial paper can be a good place for investors institutional investors in particular to park cash temporarily. That's because commercial paper is liquid and essentially risk-free, since it is typically issued by profitable, long-established organizations.
  
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