Puerto Rico

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a journalist group seeking the release of a wide range of Puerto Rico Oversight Board information, which may have had an impact on the PREPA bankruptcy proceedings.

One analyst says the final figure will be closer to the Puerto Rico Oversight Board's estimate than the bondholders'.

Many say continued lower rate would threaten U.S. Virgin Islands' financial solvency.

Without a consensual plan, the bankruptcy could be dismissed.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain is upset little mediation has occurred in recent months.

Without certification it will be harder to get the appeals court to hear any bondholders' appeal.

Increasing electric rates to pay the debt would lead to economic contraction, a University of Puerto Rico professor said.

The bondholders and bond insurers submitted four expert reports to support their belief they deserve more money than what's being offered in the PREPA bankruptcy.

Technology is improving collection of the tax supporting COFINA bonds.

They say there are at least six different novel or unsettled questions of law that would be clarified by an appeals court ruling.