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 returning to work on Monday, prepared for a $3.1 billion calendar amid a holiday shortened week and the U.S. elections. Markets are open for Election Day on Tuesday but closed Friday for the Veterans Day holiday.
November 7 -
Marian Zucker, President of the Office of Finance & Development at New York State Homes and Community Renewal, and Suzanne Shank, founder and CEO of Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., have won the 2016 Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance.
November 4 -
In observance of Veterans Day, Mischler Financial Group has made a financial pledge to three organizations which go above and beyond the call of duty in their support of U.S. military veterans and their families and their local communities.
November 1 -
New YorkThe New York City Council unanimously voted to create a new business improvement district in Queens called the Greater JFK BID.
October 28 -
Conning lowered its outlook on the municipal credit of U.S. states this week to declining from stable as state tax revenue growth turned negative in the first extended decline since the Great Recession.
October 28 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, rose one basis point to 3.95% in the week ended Oct. 27 from 3.94% in the previous week.
October 27 -
Public finance and tax lawyer James McGettrick has joined Norton Rose Fulbright as an of counsel in the firms Washington, D.C. office, the company announced on Wednesday.
October 26 -
The Volcker Alliance announced on Monday that it will be conducting a study called the Truth and Integrity in Government Finance that is aimed at helping U.S. states improve budgeting and fiscal sustainability.
October 24 -
Gary Hall, national head of investment banking at Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., has become the firms newest equity partner, the company announced on Monday. Hall, who becomes the firms sixth equity partner, is based out of the firms West Coast headquarters in Oakland.
October 17 -
Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., one of the top municipal bond firms in the United States and the largest African-American, Latino and woman-owned investment bank in the nation, celebrated its 20th anniversary on Thursday.
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