Puerto Rico in Distress

ABI Analysis

Assured Guaranty Ltd. is seeking financial information from Puerto Rico, and is looking to Washington, D.C., for help, Bloomberg News reported yesterday.

Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank, whose regulator says faces a cash shortfall of as much as $1.3 billion in June, will continue to operate on its own — for now, Bloomberg News reported yesterday.

House Republicans released a draft of a rescue plan for Puerto Rico yesterday that they hoped could quickly garner bipartisan support and win over skeptics on the island, on Wall Street and in Congress, the New York Times reported today.