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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Weekly municipal bond volume will be down with the Federal Open Market Committee set to meet, though no interest rate increase is expected.
April 27 -
New York City's executive budget came under fire for increasing spending and setting aside too little in reserves for cuts from Washington and uncertain times ahead.
April 27 -
The municipal bond market will see a light new issue calendar next week as the Federal Reserve meeting on monetary policy puts a damper on new debt issuance.
April 27 -
Municipal bonds steadied after sliding the previous day, as the last of the week’s new issuance came to market.
April 26 -
Munis were stronger on Thursday as the last of the week's supply slipped into the market.
April 26 -
Municipal bonds were weaker Tuesday as Illinois sold $500 million of bonds and the N.Y.&N.J. Port Authority deal was priced.
April 25 -
The recent performance of munis has reset relative valuations to more attractive levels, according to BlackRock's Peter Hayes.
April 25 -
Municipal bond buyers had billions of new paper flow into the primary market - which took it all down but overall the market was weaker for the second day in a row as Treasury yields continue to climb.
April 24 -
Municipal bond buyers had a wide variety of offerings to choose from on Tuesday.
April 24 -
The budget watchdog formed a committee to seek Kellermann's replacement.
April 23
