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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Top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at midday, traders said, as North Carolina competitively sold more than $550 million of bonds.
By Chip BarnettJuly 20 -
Municipal bond traders will be seeing the last of this week’s larger deals come to market on Thursday, with North Carolina competitively selling more than $550 million of bonds in a single offering.
By Chip BarnettJuly 20 -
Top-quality municipal bonds ended stronger on Wednesday, according to traders, as deals from Virginia and Georgia issuers hit the market.
By Chip BarnettJuly 19 -
Top-quality municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, as deals from Virginia and Georgia issuers hit the market on Wednesday.
By Chip BarnettJuly 19 -
Municipal bond traders will be seeing more deals come their way on Wednesday with competitive sales from a Virginia issuer and a negotiated deal from Georgia.
By Chip BarnettJuly 19 -
Top-rated municipal bonds finished stronger on Tuesday as the competitive arena heated up with the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s offering of four bond sales totaling almost $1.5 billion.
By Chip BarnettJuly 18 -
Top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, as the competitive arena heated up with the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s offering four bond sales totaling almost $1.5 billion while the state of New Mexico brought two sales totaling over $380 million.
By Chip BarnettJuly 18 -
Municipal bond traders are set to see the first of the week’s new issue hit the screens on Tuesday, led by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s four competitive bond sales.
By Chip BarnettJuly 18 -
Municipal bonds finished mixed on Monday, traders said, as they prepared for the week’s $7.66 billion new issue calendar.
By Chip BarnettJuly 17 -
Municipal bonds were mixed at midday, traders said, as they prepared for the week’s $7.66 billion new issue calendar.
By Chip BarnettJuly 17 -
The rating service says the outlook remains healthy even with a lack of clarity around the Trump Administration’s plans for beefing up spending.
By Chip BarnettJuly 17 -
Municipal bond traders are returning to work on Monday set for the week’s $7.66 billion new issue calendar. The slate is composed of $3.99 billion of negotiated deals and $3.67 billion of competitive sales.
By Chip BarnettJuly 17 -
The primary municipal bond market will keep chugging along next week, with participants set to see more action than they did in a fast and furious past week.
July 14 -
New York's redesigned Open Data Portal is getting 50,000 new users a month.
By Chip BarnettJuly 14 -
Top-shelf municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, who were looking ahead to next week’s new issue calendar. which Ipreo estimates at $7.66 billion.
By Chip BarnettJuly 14 -
Municipal bond traders are waiting to see how much volume the market will encounter next week as they eye volatile muni yields.
By Chip BarnettJuly 14 -
Top-quality municipal bonds finished unchanged on Thursday, traders said, as more deals came to market in the last big push of the week.
By Chip BarnettJuly 13 -
Top-quality municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, traders said, as more deals came to market.
By Chip BarnettJuly 13 -
Municipal bond traders are set to see more deals head their way on Thursday as the market will see the last big sales of the week hit the screens.
By Chip BarnettJuly 13 -
Top-rated municipal bonds finished stronger on Wednesday as a large deal from a New York and New Jersey issuer hit the screens while a deal from a Chicago issuer was postponed until next week.
By Chip BarnettJuly 12










