Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's employment situation continued improvement in March.

The Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico has posted its auditor's report on fiscal 2013 showing the GDB's exposure to the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority.

If Puerto Rico cannot find a way to address the deficit in the commonwealth’s teachers' pension, it would be a credit negative, said Fitch and Standard & Poor's.

Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the teachers' pension reform passed by the Puerto Rico government in December.

After seven years where Puerto Rico's economy generally declined, several economists say there are signs that it is stabilizing.

Puerto Rico's March net revenues came in 1.2% below projections.

A Puerto Rico's House of Representatives committee is rewording Senate-passed energy bills to bar private companies from selling electricity to retail customers.

A Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico spokesman Wednesday denied a report that the Puerto Rico Ports Authority planned to sell a bond by the end of June.

A new study projects that Puerto Rico could receive billions of additional federal dollars if it became a state, information that some observers said could inject new life into the statehood debate on the financially troubled island.

Puerto Rico's Economic Activity Index in February was unchanged from the January value.