Companies raised $546 billion from new bond and share issues in January, as a flood of central bank money-printing and recovering stock markets brought record numbers of new listings, special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deals, and share sales, Refinitiv data showed on Feb. 3. The numbers included $106.15 billion in initial public offerings (IPOs), SPACs, and secondary offerings, with the amount of money raised by SPACs alone soaring 20 times to $24.26 billion from a year earlier, the data showed. Companies also raised nearly $439.9 billion in corporate debt in January, a 5 percent fall since the same period last year, but still the second largest January in 25 years. A SPAC, a shell company that raises money in an IPO before later merging with a privately held company to take the latter public, has become many investors structure of choice over the past year. January’s haul was already 30 percent …