Posts by Inteligencia Económica

Las quiebras disminuyen 19% para el mes de julio, y 11% en lo que va del año

Para el mes de julio se radicaron un total de 664 quiebras, 154 menos (19%) que julio del 2016. Las radicaciones bajo Capítulo 7 totalizaron 254, una disminución de -27%. Capítulo 11 tuvo 4 radicaciones, 8 menos (-67%) que el año pasado. No se radicaron quiebras bajo Capítulo 12, a diferencia de las 3 radicadas en julio 2016. Bajo Capítulo 13 se radicaron 406 quiebras, 50 menos (-11%) que el año pasado.
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Ventas de auto aumentan 4.6% en julio, y 2.9% en lo que va del año

Por: GUIA   El Grupo Unido de Importadores de Automóviles (GUIA), organización que representa la industria automotriz en Puerto Rico, presentó hoy los resultados de ventas de automóviles nuevos para julio 2017. El periodo cerró con un total de  6,947 unidades vendidas. Esto representa un aumento de 4.6%, comparado con julio de 2016. La demanda acumulada muestra un 2.9% por encima del mismo periodo del año pasado.
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Think Strategically: Increased Market Risk, Tax Reform in Life Support, US Household Ramp Up Debt & PR Update

By Francisco Rodriguez-Castro, President & CEO of Birling Capital Advisors LLC (frc@birlingcapital.com)   Publicado en: febrero 2017   Increased Market Risk & Tax Reform on Life Support We have come across data that shows that even with all the chaos that Washington and the White House seem to be experiencing with President Trump, we see signals that a significant number of investors are putting their cash to work. Some equity mutual funds have been seeing their first inflows in the last 12 months. To this, we need to add that we see the best month for the stock market since Lyndon
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Think Strategically: US job growth, the FED, Trumpconomics, & PR Debt face-off

By Francisco Rodriguez-Castro (frc@birlingcapital.com), President & CEO of Birling Capital Advisors LLC   This week the U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in January, 52,000 more than the market consensus of 175,000 new jobs. This growth was not enough to avert an increase in unemployment to 4.8% from the previous rate of 4.7% as more people began looking for work. As expected the Fed policy committee voted unanimously to keep the federal fund rates in a range of 0.50% to 0.75%, Fed Chair Yellen stated that “measures of consumer and business sentiment have improved of late, but business investment remains “soft”.
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