Puerto Rico

The new temporary spending bill includes Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board gave extensions to Puerto Rico’s government and public authorities for fiscal plan submissions.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain directed that Puerto Rico Employers Retirement System bond interest payments to bondholders should continue pending a determination on their lien.

Fresh from a victory on Friday, bondholders and insurers are asking the Title III bankruptcy court to award them additional documents connected to the sales and use tax.

After Puerto Rico failed to persuade Congress to ease the modified territorial tax system in the tax law, an opportunity zone measure helping the island may be included in a January emergency spending bill.

Puerto Rico said it had $5 billion more in cash than disclosed three weeks ago after scouring more than 800 government bank accounts.

Bond analysts and Puerto Rico political leaders were voicing concern Friday over a new tax on territories reportedly included in the Republican federal tax bill.

Puerto Rico’s electrical grid is unlikely to be fully restored until the end of May, the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday -- months longer than the timeline offered by the island’s governor.

Creditors clashed in court with bond issuers over claims on revenues for the Employee Retirement System.

The U.S. is moving toward a territorial tax system for businesses that would hurt Puerto Rico by treating it as a foreign country.