Chip Barnett is a journalist with almost 50 years of professional experience. He started his career at the Gannett Newspapers in Westchester County, N.Y., working his way up from back-shop compositor to Senior News Editor. Barnett later worked for Thomson Reuters in Manhattan, covering state and local government finance as a Reporter and later Executive Editor for TM3.com and as Editor in Charge of Municipal Finance for Reuters News. Later, he was the Editor of Municipal Finance Today at SourceMedia. Barnett has also worked for DebtWire/Municipals and has written about commercial real estate in South Florida and the Midwest for both The Real Deal and Globe Street. Barnett is currently a Reporter at The Bond Buyer.
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IHS Markit’s Ipreo forecasts weekly bond volume will hit $2.8 billion next week.
February 15 -
Business activity grew modestly in New York State in February, the New York Federal Reserve said.
February 15 -
Florida, Newark, and Missouri Health priced bonds as the week's action wound down.
February 14 -
The municipal bond primary was winding down on Thursday as the last of the week’s deals were hitting the screens.
February 14 -
Tracy Palandjian, CEO of Social Finance, and Herve Duteil, Chief Sustainability Officer at BNP Paribas, join Chip Barnett of The Bond Buyer to talk about the new and growing field of social impact bonds and what it is about them that appeals to both issuers and investors.
February 14 -
Municipal CUSIP requests increased in January on a year-over-year basis as new deals swarmed into the market.
February 13 -
More new supply hit the screens led by general obligation deals from the District of Columbia and Delaware.
February 13 -
The primary market was active on Tuesday as deals from the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York and the state of Texas hit the screens.
February 12 -
The state of Texas competitively sold bonds while the DASNY deal was priced for retail investors.
February 12 -
NYC budget watchdogs credited the mayor efforts to restrain spending before an expected economic slump, though some said he didn't go far enough.
February 8
