Puerto Rico

The plan of adjustment hearing scheduled for late July will be postponed.

Board asks judge to exclude bondholders' expert testimony and reports from plan of adjustment hearing.

There is a growing likelihood that the July 17 plan of adjustment hearing will be postponed.

The bondholders charge bad faith in negotiations and want no plan employed until all appeals are exhausted.

Assured Guaranty's attorney argued the judge's procedure to estimate the bondholders' claim should assume the Oversight Board would not exist.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain seemed sympathetic to putting a time limit on the bondholders' claim.

The electrical generator provides about 21% of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's electricity and the default's impact on PREPA and PREPA's bankruptcy remain to be seen.

The judge limits legal arguments to six topics.

A consensual plan of adjustment is unlikely to be reached, according to one observer.

Puerto Rico must take additional steps to be able to regain market access, they said.