Market Extra: What bull market for stocks? Investors are still sitting on a record pile of cash.

Even with U.S. stocks in a new bull market, investors aren’t showing many signs of backing away from money-market funds and other cash-like investments offering yields of about 5%, the highest in about 15 years.

Money-market funds hit a record of $5.9 trillion in assets as of Tuesday, signaling a continuing drain out of bank deposits into higher-yielding “cash-like” investments, according to Peter Crane, president and publisher of Crane Data.

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