There's a new whale in the corporate-bond market.
Apple Inc., Oracle Corp., and the other tech giants hoarding half a trillion dollars in cash have joined the ranks of the biggest buyers of the debt, often snapping up as much as half of some bond issues, according to five people with knowledge of the transactions.
The companies are muscling into a market traditionally dominated by big bond funds including Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., and Fidelity Investments. They're honing in on one of asset managers' favorite ways to juice returns, particularly as the Federal Reserve holds short-term interest rates near zero for a seventh year.
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