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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The intermediate and long end has moved cheaper, creating an opportunity to add some yield to muni portfolios, says Triangle Park's J.R. Rieger.
September 24 -
Ahead of the FOMC monetary policy meeting and quarter end wrapup, a slim supply slate awaits muni buyers.
September 24 -
Texas factory activity continued to expand in September.
September 24 -
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index was unchanged at +0.18 in August.
September 24 -
Municipal bond issuance is set to drop by half next week as Federal Open Market Committee meets and the third quarter comes to an end.
September 21 -
A three decade veteran of the municipal market, Marjorie Henning was most recently a director in the municipal securities division at Citigroup.
September 21 -
Worries about the Fed's monetary policy meeting combined with the looming end of the quarter to keep muni issuance low.
September 21 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index rose to 4.12%.
September 20 -
Issuers from Colorado, Minnesota, and Florida led the pack of issuers on Thursday.
September 20 -
The last of the week’s big deals came to market on Thursday with issuers in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Florida leading the pack.
September 20
