증권사들은 주된 자금조달 창구인 기업어음(CP) 금리가 급등한 데다 보유 채권을 내다 팔 채권시장이 얼어붙으면서 실탄 마련에 어려움을 겪었다.
Securities firms had difficulty in preparing bullets as interest rates on commercial paper (CP), the main source of financing, soared and the bond market to sell their bonds froze.