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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Municipals were firm as Massachusetts offered almost $727 million of general obligation bonds to retail buyers.
August 28 -
Municipal bond buyers will get another chance to get some Massachusetts and Texas paper as both issuers head into the market.
August 24 -
Massachusetts and Texas will be in the market next week as the unofficial summer season winds down during the last week before Labor Day.
August 24 -
Deals from New York and Massachusetts led the new issue slate on Thursday as the last of the week’s supply came to market.
August 23 -
Mark O. Norell, a veteran tax-exempt bond lawyer has been named a partner in the firm’s public finance department in New York.
August 23 -
Municipal bond market participants are seeing the last of this week’s new issues come to market on Thursday, led by issuers from New York and Massachusetts.
August 23 -
Both the big Illinois bond deal and the giant Texas note sale were warmly received by investors Wednesday.
August 22 -
Illinois came to market on Wednesday with over $900 million of bonds while Texas sold a massive note deal in the competitive arena.
August 22 -
Municipal bond buyers saw some new offerings come to market on Tuesday, led by a Denver city and county deal.
August 21 -
Municipal bonds were firm and little changed on Tuesday as new issue supply started to price.
August 21 -
Texas headlines the week's slate as it prepares for a mammoth note sale while Massachusetts prepares large short-term sales of its own.
August 17 -
Texas will take center stage next week with its mammoth note sale.
August 17 -
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Connecticut capped a busy week in the muni market.
August 16 -
Municipal bond buyers saw the last of the week’s big deals come to market.
August 16 -
The municipal bond market saw another big wave of supply sweep in on Wednesday, led by issuers in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and New York.
August 15 -
The supply keeps coming for municipal bond buyers, with a slew of new deals pricing in the primary.
August 15 -
Action was brisk in the municipal bond market on Tuesday as several big deals were priced in the primary.
August 14 -
Primary market action kicked off Tuesday as several big deals were offered to municipal bond buyers.
August 14 -
With about $12 billion of new deals on tap, muni investors will have plenty of bonds to choose from.
August 13 -
New York City’s economy grew 2.7% in the second quarter, as its unemployment fell to a historic low.
August 13
