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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In the first part of a two-part podcast, Emilie Mazzacurati, CEO of Four Twenty Seven, discusses the challenges financial firms and state and local governments face when it comes to climate change, adaptation and resilience. And in a second part, The Bond Buyer's Northeast Regional Editor Paul Burton chats about green bonds, climate change and resilience, and cybersecurity. Chip Barnett hosts.
March 5 -
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is making an end run around the Trump administration and proposing a legislative solution to jump-start the Gateway project.
March 4 -
The upgrade Friday came as city Comptroller Scott Stinger warned about the use of numerous one-time actions to balance the budget.
March 1 -
Weekly bond volume is estimated at $5.84 billion, consisting of of $4.58 billion of negotiated deals and $1.27 billion of competitive sales.
March 1 -
Muni buyers scrambled to snatch up the last of this week’s new issues on Thursday.
February 28 -
BofA and JPMorgan won Baltimore County, Md.'s $490 million competitive bond sales.
February 28 -
In an historic election result, two African-American women will face off in a runoff election to become the next mayor of Chicago. Yvette Shields talks with Chip Barnett about what this means for the municipal bond market and why it matters to bondholders.
February 28 -
New York City and Los Angeles issuers came to market on Wednesday.
February 27 -
Municipal bond buyers were rewarded with much-awaited supply, as deals from New York City and Intel hit the market.
February 27 -
Ohio and Nevada issuers came to market with a water deals as municipal bonds showed off their strength.
February 26 -
Municipals were stronger as issues in Ohio and Nevada came to market
February 26 -
The demand component of the municipal bond market is continuing to drive firm prices,
February 25 -
Municipals remained strong on Monday as a Wisconsin school district sold GOs in the primary market.
February 25 -
IHS Markit Ipreo forecasts weekly bond volume will increase to $4.9 billion.
February 22 -
Municipal bond buyers are looking forward to a more robust new issue slate for next week.
February 22 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index was unchanged from 4.06% in the previous week.
February 21 -
Municipal bond buyers gave a warm reception to the two deals totaling $473 million.
February 21 -
Municipal bond buyers saw new issue supply rise on Thursday, led by issues in Louisiana and North Carolina.
February 21 -
Paul Daley, managing director at BondWave, discusses how studying fixed-income trading patterns can improve municipal bond trading decisions. Chip Barnett hosts.
February 21 -
Seasonal trends have favored munis so far this year, according to Blackrock's Peter Hayes.
February 20
