The Puerto Rico Oversight Board defended its latest actions in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bankruptcy and rejected bondholder and unsecured creditor challenges to its proposals. The urgent motion filed Dec. 16 was “purely administrative in nature,” requesting the scheduling of a disclosure statement hearing, deadlines for briefing on the disclosure statement and the
The UK faces a fresh wave of strike action in the new year, as nurses, ambulance staff and rail workers prepare to walk out over pay. The PCS union, which represents striking civil servants including Border Force staff, on Friday warned industrial action would be ramped up even further if the government continued to refuse
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board approved a $19.2 billion budget for 2023 and a four-year financial plan. The budget includes a 5.5% fare increase for next year and envisions a 4% increase in 2025. “I’ve been talking about the financial crisis facing the MTA for many months,” MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said
West Virginia municipalities will receive fresh federal funds to address dated waste infrastructure networks long overdue for upgrades. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Program will provide $2.2 million for “18 critical projects across West Virginia,” the state’s two senators saidTuesday in a news release, supporting efforts ranging from upgrades to telecommunications technology in
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders objected to the Oversight Board’s proposed plan of adjustment and asked that the discovery process begin immediately. “There is no conceivable benefit to interested parties or the court from forcing all parties to sit on their hands for more than two months before plan-related discovery begins, only then to
Britain has joined the international criticism of Joe Biden’s massive US package of green subsidies, warning they are protectionist and will hit UK-based makers of electric vehicles, batteries and other renewables. Kemi Badenoch, the UK’s international trade secretary, has written to her US counterpart, Katherine Tai, to protest at the structure of the Biden administration’s
The Federal Reserve, over its more than centurylong existence, has emerged as a leading force in the stock market. This stature was bolstered by the central bank’s adoption of two unconventional policy tools in the 2000s – large-scale asset purchases and forward guidance. Large-scale asset purchases refer to the Fed’s emergency buying of government debt