Puerto Rico bonds have outperformed U.S. stocks, corporate debt and every other corner of the municipal-securities market since the Caribbean island’s financial crisis precipitated an unprecedented federal takeover, Bloomberg News reported today. Yet investors still don’t know how much of what they’re owed they’ll get back.
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Puerto Rico, which triggered the biggest default in the municipal-bond market by skipping nearly $1 billion of debt payments in July, is set to pay Millstein & Co. as much as $8.4 million in the next year to provide outside restructuring advice, Bloomberg News reported yesterday.
Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank, which served as the island’s financial adviser and lender before being placed in a state of emergency, failed to pay investors $9.9 million of interest due Sept. 1., according to a regulatory filing, Bloomberg News reported yesterday.
The White House said yesterday that it had chosen seven experts in finance and the law to supervise Puerto Rico’s fiscal affairs in the coming months under a law enacted this summer intended to help the island restructure its $72 billion debt, the New York Times reported today.
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The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico was created under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act of 2016. The Board consists of seven members appointed by the President of the United States and one ex officio member designated by the Governor of Puerto Rico. Access information on the Board, documents, videos of meetings, calendar of events and live webcasts by clicking here.