“Operación Empleo,” the new administration's first large-scale initiative through the Department of Economic Development and Commerce to offer workshops aimed at investors and private sector companies, will take place Jan. 16, government officials announced.
The chain of rating downgrades affecting Puerto Rico’s credit added yet another link Monday, when Moody's Investors Service cut the rating on approximately $8.0 billion of outstanding power revenue bonds held by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's to Baa2 from Baa1.
Governor-elect Alejandro García-Padilla said the recent downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s General Obligation bonds “further signal the need for fiscal discipline at the central government and in our public corporations.”
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