Increasing healthcare, transportation, housing and food costs put pressure on the island's Consumer Price Index, which jumped by 2.5 percent year-over-year in April, but seemed to show slight improvement in comparison to the prior month.
The links that make up Puerto Rico’s food chain — shippers, distributors and retailers — need to become as efficient as possible to keep costs in check as external pressures continue mounting and threatening the ...
New York-based National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. on Wednesday gave props to the government’s progress in successfully addressing Puerto Rico’s “structurally unbalanced fiscal environment.”