The eventual restructuring of some or all of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion in debt obligations will carry “significant implications” for the financial guaranty sector as a whole, Moody’s Investor Service said Thursday.
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 came down hard on Moody’s Investors Service’s decision to downgrade the Commonwealth’s credit rating deeper into junk status by saying the move shows “ratings agencies are totally out of tune with what’s happening” in Puerto Rico.