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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As July winds down, muni issuance will be muffled thanks to the FOMC's monetary policy meeting.
July 26 -
Connecticut on Thursday sold its first bond offering since it passed a budget last month.
July 25 -
Municipal bond buyers saw more supply come to market in Wednesday as retail investors kept up their confidence in tax-free bond funds.
July 24 -
Moody’s has acquired a majority stake in Four Twenty Seven, a provider of data and analysis on climate risks.
July 24 -
Investor demand for New York City bonds allowed underwriters to move the sale up by a day.
July 23 -
Christophe Dugardyn and Andrew Li of ING discuss opportunities in the green bond marketplace in the United States and look at how ING uses green shading to identify light, medium and dark green investors. Chip Barnett hosts.
July 23 -
As summer sizzles, this week’s hottest deals can be found in the municipal bond market.
July 22 -
Munis are expected to attract inflows for another week. After that the ball's in the Federal Open Market Committee's court.
July 19 -
Investors are also facing the imbalance of summer reinvestment season and the typical mid-year volume deceleration in July and August.
July 18 -
Ziegler has hired Mark Landreville as a managing director and Christina Rappl as an assistant vice president.
July 18 -
Fitch Ratings has developed two indices tracking LGIPs.
July 18 -
Municipal bond buyers saw some big note and bond deals hit the market on Wednesday, led by issuers in Georgia and Colorado.
July 17 -
The former BlackRock senior managing director has been elected to the MarketAxess board of directors.
July 17 -
New-issue supply started to trickle into the market Monday, a thin stream that will turn into a torrent by week’s end.
July 15 -
Denise Richardson, who previously held environmental and technology posts for the city, most recently was executive director of a construction trade group.
July 15 -
The MBSB and the Muni Forum of N.Y. is hosting the 2019 Urban Leadership Fellows for a “Municipal Finance Day” on Monday.
July 15 -
The municipal bond market will continue to see a swarm of mid-sized deals that will be taken down with ease, continuing the good times that have been fueled by 27 straight weeks of fund inflows.
July 12 -
The education sector dominated the municipal bond market on Thursday as several big deals hit the screens.
July 11 -
Dozens of deals hit the screens on Wednesday, with offerings from Massachusetts and New York issuers headlining the supply slate.
July 10 -
New York City has hit its goal of 9,000 certified Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises.
July 10
