Sentences with phrase «rate than on the mainland»

Money changers will cash traveler's checks and currency but at a much lower reduced rate than on the mainland.

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Despite the mainland's capital controls, its bond market joined the global market ructions on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve surprised by saying it expected to hike interest rates three times next year, rather than the previously forecast two hikes.

But unlike in the mainland U.S., most people in Puerto Rico choose to abandon their dogs on beaches or in remote locations rather than surrender them to one of the island's eight open - intake animal shelters, where euthanasia rates top a staggering 95 percent.