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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Municipal buyers will see a $5.3 billion new issue calendar next week, with the biggest deals coming out of Los Angeles.
By Chip BarnettJune 22 -
Municipal bonds held onto gains as buyers saw two big deals come to market on Thursday.
June 21 -
Municipal bond buyers were seeing the last of the week’s big sales come to market as munis were stronger in quiet secondary activity on Thursday.
June 21 -
Municipal bonds were stronger on Tuesday as California’s $1.7 billion tobacco bond deal received $15 billion in orders.
June 20 -
Municipal bonds were stronger on Tuesday as California’s big tobacco bond deal was priced for institutions.
By Chip BarnettJune 20 -
Municipal bonds were ending stronger on Tuesday as several large, high-grade deals led by Georgia and Denver swept into the market.
By Chip BarnettJune 19 -
Municipal bonds were stronger on Tuesday as several large deals swept into the market.
By Chip BarnettJune 19 -
Municipal bonds held firm on Monday ahead of the week’s two biggest deals on opposite ends of the credit spectrum.
June 18 -
Municipals were mostly stronger at mid-session, as the market waits for the start of the week’s moderately sized new issue calendar.
By Chip BarnettJune 18 -
Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes slipped this month.
By Chip BarnettJune 18