A consortium of York Capital Management, NRG Energy Inc and ITC Holdings Corp have proposed investing as much as $3.5 billion in Puerto Rico's electrical infrastructure, Reuters reported yesterday. The island's electricity is supplied by struggling electric power authority PREPA, which has debt of around $9 billion and is due to present creditors with a business plan on Monday.
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Puerto Rico’s $72 billion debt saga has become a booming business for Washington, D.C., lobbyists, who are developing websites, creating advertisements and lining up the support of conservative advocacy groups, Bloomberg News reported today.
Puerto Rico’s descent into junk has made its bonds more attractive to Goldman Sachs Asset Management and OppenheimerFunds Inc. even as their rivals flee, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. Goldman Sachs increased its stake in Puerto Rico bonds to $1.3 billion as of May 5 from $351 million in February 2014, when the island was cut to speculative grade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
A judge last week approved the $17.25 million sale of Doral Financial Corp.’s insurance arm to Popular Insurance LLC, which won a competitive auction earlier this month for the business, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The order was signed on Friday by Bankruptcy Judge Shelley C. Chapman.