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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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