The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to review an appeals court ruling against a group of Puerto Rico bondholders seeking pension assets and a share of future revenue, Pensions&Investments reported. On Jan. 30, the U.S.
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Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood candidate Pedro Pierluisi yesterday was holding on to his narrow lead in the gubernatorial race as ballot counting continued and his chief rival refused to concede, Bloomberg News reported.
A plan to pull Puerto Rico out of bankruptcy by 2021 hit a major obstacle on Friday when a new member that U.S. President Donald Trump appointed to a federal control board overseeing the island’s finances rejected the immediate filing of a debt restructuring proposal.
The judge overseeing Puerto Rico’s debt restructuring process has rejected a bond insurer’s request for an investigation into what it said were potentially improper bond trades based on information obtained during confidential mediation sessions, Reuters reported. During a telephonic hearing on Wednesday, U.S.