“Puerto Rico missed most of a $58 million bond payment, the first default by the U.S. commonwealth in what may become one of the largest restructurings in the history of the $3.7 trillion market for debt sold by U.S. state and local governments,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Puerto Rico Defaults on Debt Payment
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