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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Municipals were mostly stronger at mid-session as the last of the week’s big deals came to market.
October 25 -
The Municipal Impact Coalition, a group of market professionals, is expanding its drive to make municipal bonds more accessible and understandable across the nation and around the globe.
October 25 -
Municipals remained stronger as Montgomery County, Maryland, came to market with a triple-A-rated sale.
October 24 -
Montgomery County, Md., came to market on Wednesday with a triple-A-rated general obligation bond offering.
October 24 -
Volatility in the equity market spurred a flight to quality.
October 23 -
Municipals were stronger at mid-session as new supply started to trickle into the market.
October 23 -
Puerto Rico bonds gained in a mixed muni market as a revised fiscal plan projected a bigger surplus.
October 22 -
Municipal bonds were stronger on Monday ahead of this week’s rather paltry new issue supply calendar.
October 22 -
Weekly bond volume is forecast to fall to $5.9 billion from $10.3 billion in the prior week.
October 19 -
Municipal bond supply plunges to under $6 billion next week after seeing over $10 billion of new issues priced this week.
October 19
