Puerto Rico's troubled utility, PREPA, made another withdrawal from its reserve account to make a quarterly bond payment on April 1, according to a regulatory filing posted by the utility, Reuters reported yesterday.
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Puerto Rico’s junk-rated electric utility gained 15 more days to negotiate with creditors as it struggles to repair its finances, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The Electric Power Authority, called Prepa, said Wednesday that creditors agreed to extend to April 30 an accord that pushes off default.
The Treasury Department is quietly stepping up its involvement in Puerto Rico, an indication that the island’s financial problems, which have been simmering for years, are reaching a critical point, the New York Times reported today.
Bonds of Puerto Rico’s struggling power utility rallied to the highest in more than year as the agency and its creditors hammer out proposals to repair its finances, Bloomberg News reported today. Some debt of the junk-rated authority, called PREPA, gained after creditors last week submitted a $2 billion plan that would help diversify fuel sources to stabilize energy costs.