short-dated securities

基本解释

The vast bulk (two-thirds) is invested in bank deposits and short-term securities. Only 3% is put into long-dated American Treasuries.
没有准确的数据告诉我们这些资金被投向何处，但据Toloui先生的推测，其中的40%已有定论：其中很大一部分（达2/3）被投资于银行存款和短期证券，只有3%被用来购买美国长期国债。
Japan's first intervention in six years to rein in the yen's gain Wednesday boosted demand for short-dated Treasurys while weakening long-dated securities for the first time this week…
日本在本周三控制了日元的收益，这是日本六年来首次通过干预来提高短期国债的需求，同时也首次在本周削弱了长期债券。
Many subprime mortgage-backed securities were held in off-balance-sheet vehicles that funded themselves by issuing short-dated, asset-backed commercial paper to money-market funds and other investors.
许多次级抵押证券通过帐外交易工具持有，这些交易工具通过向货币市场基金和其他投资者发行短期有资产担保的商业票据来进行融资。

For some banks, the combined issuance of asset-backed securities and commercial paper (short-dated securities) amounted to about half of all their loans.
ECONOMIST: America’s banks are not as healthy as they look