Federated Investors, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2010 Earnings, saying, "Through challenging equity and fixed income markets in 2007 and 2008, Federated's money market assets increased by $182 billion. As markets recovered in 2009 and 2010, Federated's money market products experienced $80 billion in net outflows, reflecting industry-wide trends. At the same time, Federated acquired $17 billion in assets from other money-market providers. Federated's money market assets have increased a total of $102.4 billion since the end of 2006 to $276.0 billion at Dec. 31, 2010." The company will host a conference call at 9am Friday. In other news, the ICI reported its weekly "Money Market Mutual Fund Assets" report, saying, "Total money market mutual fund assets decreased by $3.80 billion to $2.757 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, January 26, the Investment Company Institute reported today. Taxable government funds decreased by $3.25 billion, taxable non-government funds increased by $4.23 billion, and tax-exempt funds decreased by $4.78 billion."