Puerto Rico

Plan of adjustment deadline schedule gets extended to Aug. 18.

Economists remain guarded about the island's economic future.

The restructuring would make bondholders whole, but the bonds' maturities are being pushed out by 25 to 35 years.

Judge Swain approves another deadline extension for a proposed plan of adjustment.

Sponsors say bill is a chance to have territories' needs addressed.

The board and the PREPA bond parties told Swain they had reached "an agreement in principle to resolve the outstanding perfection issues" in the bankruptcy.

The FOMB needs to return to its "deal mindset" so that we can end the bankruptcy at PREPA. While gaps remain between the FOMB's and bondholders' affordability analyses, they are not insurmountable.

The May economic activity index showed an increase.

The money is to help AES-Puerto Rico continue to provide PREPA with electricity.

The fiscal 2024 General Fund increases 2.5%

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the Oversight Board propose a new plan of adjustment by July 14.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain said she found the Oversight Board expert's calculations more convincing than those of the bondholders.

The board is offering $2.4 billion to all bondholders while $8.5 billion of par value is outstanding.

The plan of adjustment hearing scheduled for late July will be postponed.

Board asks judge to exclude bondholders' expert testimony and reports from plan of adjustment hearing.

There is a growing likelihood that the July 17 plan of adjustment hearing will be postponed.

The bondholders charge bad faith in negotiations and want no plan employed until all appeals are exhausted.

Assured Guaranty's attorney argued the judge's procedure to estimate the bondholders' claim should assume the Oversight Board would not exist.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain seemed sympathetic to putting a time limit on the bondholders' claim.

The electrical generator provides about 21% of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's electricity and the default's impact on PREPA and PREPA's bankruptcy remain to be seen.