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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Municipal bond traders are set to see another wave of issuance hit the market on Wednesday, led by issuers in California and Utah.
February 8 -
New YorkThe city is partnering with community groups to help MWBEs get certified or re-certified as MWBE contractors and then will work with those firms to help them compete for city contracts.
February 7 -
Top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, who are set to see a more hefty new issue slate coming at them this week.
February 6 -
Steve Williamson and Chris Long have joined HJ Sims as senior vice presidents of fixed income sales, the firm announced on Monday.
February 6 -
Municipal bond traders are set to see a more hefty new issue slate coming at them this week. Total volume is estimated at $7.49 billion in a calendar comprised of $6.13 billion of negotiated deals and $1.36 billion of competitive sales.
February 6 -
New YorkSiebert Cisneros Shank & Co. officially held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday to open its expanded offices at 100 Wall Street in New York.
February 3 -
New YorkNew York City's pension funds are conducting the first-ever carbon footprint analysis of their investment portfolios to determine how to best manage them in relation to climate change, the pension trustees announced on Thursday.
February 2 -
A majority of municipal bond market participants voting in the Live Market Survey at The Bond Buyers National Outlook Conference saw muni issuance at between $350 billion and $399 billion this year.
January 31 -
New YorkThe New York City Council voted unanimously to approve an expansion of the DUMBO Business Improvement District at a meeting at City Hall on Wednesday. The full council vote on the bill came after the Finance Committee unanimously passed it in the morning.
January 18 -
New YorkNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio picked Maria Torres-Springer to be the city's new Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, replacing the departing Vicki Been. Separately, he named James Patchett President and CEO of the NYC Economic Development Corp.
January 17
