Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Tom Cotton (R- Ark.) sent a letter on Friday to José B. Carrión III, chairman of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, expressing concern that Puerto Rico’s fiscal plan fails to comply with the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).
Puerto Rican power utility PREPA and its creditors have reached a new deal to restructure $8.9 billion in debt through new bonds with longer maturities, the U.S. territory's government announced yesterday, Reuters reported.
Moody's Investors Service yesterday lowered ratings on $13 billion of Puerto Rican bonds, including debt from the U.S. territory's now-defunct former fiscal agent, the Government Development Bank (GDB), Reuters reported.
Puerto Rico's federally appointed financial oversight board scheduled mediation in debt restructuring talks between the U.S. territory's general obligation bondholders and holders of its so-called COFINA debt, which is backed by sales tax revenue, the board said in a letter to the creditors on Thursday, Reuters reported on Friday.
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