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 intermediate and long end has moved cheaper, creating an opportunity to add some yield to muni portfolios, says Triangle Park's J.R. Rieger.
September 24 -
Ahead of the FOMC monetary policy meeting and quarter end wrapup, a slim supply slate awaits muni buyers.
September 24 -
Texas factory activity continued to expand in September.
September 24 -
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index was unchanged at +0.18 in August.
September 24 -
Municipal bond issuance is set to drop by half next week as Federal Open Market Committee meets and the third quarter comes to an end.
September 21 -
A three decade veteran of the municipal market, Marjorie Henning was most recently a director in the municipal securities division at Citigroup.
September 21 -
Worries about the Fed's monetary policy meeting combined with the looming end of the quarter to keep muni issuance low.
September 21 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index rose to 4.12%.
September 20 -
Issuers from Colorado, Minnesota, and Florida led the pack of issuers on Thursday.
September 20 -
The last of the week’s big deals came to market on Thursday with issuers in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Florida leading the pack.
September 20 -
There was a healthy pulse in the municipal market as new structures attracted interest.
September 19 -
Municipals remained weaker on Wednesday as more deals came to market.
September 19 -
Solid investor demand greeted the biggest municipal bond deal of the week – the Texas Water Development Board’s $1.7 billion offering.
September 18 -
The flattening of the U.S. Treasury yield curve can be a misleading signal of recession, New York City’s Bureau of Asset Management said.
September 18 -
Municipal bond buyers saw the biggest deal of the week come to market on Tuesday.
September 18 -
Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes was steady this month, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
September 18 -
Falling crime rates and rising graduation rates were highlighted in the New York City Mayor’s management report for fiscal 2018.
September 17 -
Munis were weaker as the market waited for the week’s supply and Larry Kudlow, the president’s assistant on economic policy, discounted the risk of a recession.
September 17 -
The municipal bond market will be ready and waiting for the $7 billion of new issuance, including the first billion dollar deal in nearly five weeks.
September 14 -
Municipal bond traders will see a healthy new issue calendar hit the market next week.
September 14
