Lenders to Puerto Rico’s electric power authority are giving the beleaguered utility another two weeks before it has to make past-due payments on its lines of credit, the New York Times DealBook blog reported yesterday.
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Momentum is building toward a deal that would make painful losses inevitable for investors holding about $20 billion in bonds issued by Puerto Rico's highway, water and electricity authorities, even as some big U.S. mutual funds launch a legal battle to squelch a new law that authorizes a restructuring, Reuters reported today.
The U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico asked a federal court to dismiss as premature a lawsuit filed by U.S. mutual funds that sought to strike down a recently enacted Puerto Rican law that the funds said posed a threat to American investors, Reuters reported yesterday.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority may miss a January interest payment to investors, according to Municipal Market Advisors, potentially triggering the largest restructuring ever of state and local debt, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The agency, called Prepa, used $41.6 million of reserve funds to help make a $417.6 million payment to bondholders on July 1.
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