In recent news, the crisis of two banks in the United States and one in Europe has had a ripple effect in Puerto Rico. The intervention of federal regulators in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank brought back memories of the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent crisis that occurred on the island in 2010. However,...Read More
La semana pasada, en Puerto Rico sentimos la sacudida de la crisis de dos bancos en Estados Unidos, y uno en Europa. La intervención de los reguladores federales en el Silicon Valley Bank, ubicado (California), y el Signature Bank (Nueva York), levantó los traumas de la crisis bancaria del 2008, en Estados Unidos, y luego en...Read More
The inflation rate for the United States amounted to 6% in February 2023. This value for the inflation rate is a 0.3 percentile point reduction from the previous month of January 2023 and the fifth consecutive month experiencing a reduction in inflation rate, suggesting the inflation rate is slowly returning to its desired state of 2%....Read More
The inflation rate in Puerto Rico amounted to 5.8% on January 2023, this value represents a 0.2 percentile point reduction from the inflation experienced in the previous month of December 2022 and the third consecutive month with a reduction in interest rates. This ongoing reduction in inflation indicates the possibility for inflation rates to stabilize in...Read More
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for the month of January 2023 was 50.5, 10.3% lower than the previous month of December 2022 PMI of 56.3 and compared to January 2022 with a PMI of 56 is 9.8% lower. For context the PMI is a measure of the economic course the manufacturing sector experiences where a value...Read More