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 N.Y. Metropolitan Transportation Authority sold over $1 billion of securities Thursday as munis ended stronger.
January 31 -
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority sold over $1 billion of securities Thursday.
January 31 -
Ronnie Lowenstein, director of the Independent Budget Office, weighs the city's fiscal picture against the backdrop of economic and Washington uncertainty. Chip Barnett and Paul Burton host.
January 31 -
Munis spent most of the day in a defensive stance as the Fed met to decide the course of monetary policy.
January 30 -
The Federal Open Market Committee is set to announce its decision on interest rates this afternoon.
January 30 -
Panelists at The Bond Buyer's National Outlook Conference said state and local governments are on their own, at least for now, to fund infrastructure.
January 29 -
The municipal bond market is seeing some much anticipated supply hit the screens.
January 29 -
Municipals finished little changed on Monday in quiet activity.
January 28 -
Municipals were stronger in quiet activity on Monday as the market looks ahead to new competitive sales.
January 28 -
Another week of sub-average issuance lies ahead for the muni market.
January 25 -
The municipal bond market will feel like it’s still on vacation next week as supply hovers around holiday week type levels.
January 25 -
Municipal bonds finished mostly stronger on Thursday as deals from issuers in Connecticut and New Jersey dominated action.
January 24 -
Municipal bonds were mostly stronger as action in the primary slowed.
January 24 -
Deals from Hawaii, Colorado,and Virginia hit the market Wednesday as munis turned mostly weaker.
January 23 -
Municipal bond buyers were treated to some new supply on Wednesday as deals from issuers in Hawaii, Colorado and Virginia came to market.
January 23 -
Municipal bonds lost early strength and finished mixed on Tuesday as traders returned to work after the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.
January 22 -
Municipals were stronger Tuesday ahead of this week’s $5 billion new issue calendar.
January 22 -
Existing home sales fell 6.4% to a seasonally adjusted 4.99 million-unit rate in December.
January 22 -
The Philadelphia region's services sector reading fell in January, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said on Tuesday.
January 22 -
The Bond Buyer gives its listeners two podcasts in one today. First, Gary Siegel talks about what the Federal Reserve may be doing for the rest of the year. Second, Luis Maizel of LM Capital focuses in on what's important for the fixed income sector in 2019. Chip Barnett hosts.
January 17
