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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Competitive sales from the states of Washington and Wisconsin and negotiated deals from New York and Illinois issuers dominated Tuesday’s new issue slate.
By Chip BarnettNovember 14 -
New York and Illinois deals top Tuesday’s new issue slate as municipal bond traders get ready to gobble up some deals in the primary.
By Chip BarnettNovember 14 -
Developments on the tax reform front were not far from municipal bond traders' minds as they saw the first of the week’s new issues hit the screens on Monday.
By Chip BarnettNovember 13 -
Estimated total bond volume for the week is $9.897 billion, which consists of $6.644 billion of negotiated deals and $3.253 billion of competitive sales.
By Chip BarnettNovember 13 -
Municipal bond traders will see a chunky new issue calendar this week as the market’s focus will be on Washington, where Congress will continue to work on tax reform legislation.
By Chip BarnettNovember 13 -
The municipal market will get another healthy dose of issuance in the final full week before Thanksgiving. The calendar is chock full of deals from Illinois, as all issuers look to price bonds before the tax laws change.
November 10 -
Municipal bonds were markedly weaker at midday as market participants remain fixated on the newly released Senate
tax reform proposal and how it compares with the House version.By Chip BarnettNovember 10 -
Municipal bond market participants are scanning the news closely for details of tax reform provisions that affect them.
By Chip BarnettNovember 10 -
The last of the week’s big municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday – both from California issuers – as municipals finished weaker in secondary trading.
By Chip BarnettNovember 9 -
Although New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has invested more than $120 billion in capital improvements since 1982, the pace of investment has not kept up with the need.
By Chip BarnettNovember 9