Puerto Rico in Distress

ABI Analysis

Puerto Rico’s general obligation bonds — a debt instrument of the local government — have been trading up by a couple of percentage points, to about 67 cents on the dollar, according to a commentary in the Financial Times on Saturday.

The hedge funds and insurance companies that want financially strapped Puerto Rico to pay them back in full may have found a new ally: Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, ProPublica.com reported.

A U.S. federal appeals court has decided creditors of Puerto Rico's pension bonds are entitled to a hearing on whether they can proceed with a lawsuit against the island's government over a fiscal emergency law it passed last year, Reuters reported yesterday. The U.S.

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló has asserted a commitment to paying Puerto Rico’s creditors and has said that doing so is likely to require restructuring the debt, according to a Wall Street Journal commentary today. Rosselló’s most immediate problem, according to the commentary, is the liquidity crisis sparked by former Gov.

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