- At least seven companies have postponed more than $5 billion in US and European bond and loan sales this month.
- AVI-SPL Inc. abandoned its plan to raise $690 million in the US leveraged-loan market in the last week.
- Mesirow Financial postponed the sale of $175 million of bonds backed by the mortgage on a midtown Manhattan office tower.
- Investors cite rising interest rates, resurgent inflation, and potential cracks in the artificial-intelligence boom as reasons for the pullback.