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 trading in sympathy with Treasuries on Thursday morning as the market remained quiet as it prepared for the week’s end.
April 5 -
BlackRock's Peter Hayes says that municipal bond performance in the first quarter was clearly hurt by tax reform.
April 4 -
Buyers of municipal bonds had a variety of new issues to choose from on Wednesday as deals from New Jersey, New York, California and Maryland all came to market.
April 4 -
Despite municipals being a little sidetracked as Treasuries weakened, traders said there was a more constructive nature overall to the market on Tuesday.
April 3 -
Retail buyers were offered the chance to buy the New Jersey Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.’s subordinate tobacco settlement bonds.
April 3 -
The second-quarter kicked off Monday with a little more optimism among municipal market participants after "one of the worst quarters in a long, long time."
April 2 -
The municipal bond market is set to see a chunky new issue calendar this week: $7.85 billion.
April 2 -
The influx of volume may give the boost that's needed to jump-start the primary market.
March 29 -
The municipal bond market will see almost $7.9 billion of new deals head their way next week, as New Jersey tobacco's dominate the calendar.
March 29 -
Initial jobless claims fell to the lowest level since January 1973.
March 29
