New car unit sales for March 2023 totaled 10,732 units, this is a drop of 454 units or -4.1% compared to a year- over-year basis of March 2022. It is an increase of 1,423 or 15.3% compared on a month-to-month basis of February 2023. This is the fifth consecutive month of decreases in sales. Still,...Read More

The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for the month of February 2023 was 61.1, 21% higher than the previous month of January 2023 PMI of 50.5 and compared to February 2022 with a PMI of 57.9 is 5.5% higher. For context the PMI is a measure of the economic course the manufacturing sector experiences where a...Read More

The Economic Development Bank Economic Activity Index (EDB-EAI) for Puerto Rico saw a decline of 0.8% during the fiscal year 2021, which runs from July to June. However, the index rebounded in fiscal year 2022, growing by 4.9%. Similarly, the calendar year 2021 closed with an increase of 4.9%, while a preliminary estimate for calendar...Read More

Retail Sales in January 2023 totaled $2,841.52 million dollars, compared to the same month in the previous year these sales marked a 3.8% increase year over year. This figure also increases the current accumulated value in the seven months for the current fiscal year (July-January) to $22,335.87 million dollars, 3.4% higher than the accumulated value...Read More

The Total Non-Farm Employment in Puerto Rico for the month of February 2023 amounted to 941,000 employments, the highest levels of employment since November 2012. These February 2023 values also are a 3.1% increase compared to the previous year’s February 2022 employments, but a minimal 0.1% increase compared to the previous month of January 2023’s...Read More

The Puerto Rico real estate market has continued to show resilience in the face of the pandemic, with both new and used housing units seeing a steady rise in sales and total sales amount over the past two years. The data from January 2021 to February 2023 shows a consistent trend of growth, even during...Read More

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....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...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...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...Read More