Small businesses will have more contracting opportunities beginning in Fiscal 2017 thanks to a law President Obama signed recently that increases the maximum Small Business Administration surety bond guarantee percentage by 20 percent.
Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday released a report in which it predicted that Puerto Rico is “likely to default” on some of its debt service payments due in December, as “its liquidity pressure grows.”
Government Development Bank President Melba Acosta said Tuesday the administration “has faith” it will pull Puerto Rico out of the fiscal abyss it is currently in, and will set up mechanism to avoid a repeat of the island’s current $73 billion debt scenario.