Fitch Ratings expects Puerto Rican banks to face continuing operating challenges in 2013, despite recent efforts by those institutions to build capital and de-risk their balance sheets, the agency said in a statement issued Wednesday.
Contrary to expectations of an economic improvement in 2013, some of Puerto Rico’s most prominent economists agree there is little to no growth on the horizon.
Assuming that Puerto Rico’s economy were to grow at an annual rate of 1.75 percent starting in 2014, it would take six years for it to bounce back into pre-recession growth levels, local firm Estudios ...