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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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 -
The muni bond market will see almost $12 billion of new deals this week, but 2018's volume lags behind last year's.
August 13 -
It will seem like Christmas in August for municipal investors when nearly $12 billion of new issuance interrupts the dog days.
August 10 -
Municipal bond volume soars to nearly $12 billion next week as supply-starved buyers await the new issue slate.
August 10 -
Puerto Rico issues rallied after the main parties reached a deal on the restructuring of Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp. bonds.
August 9 -
Puerto Rico issues rallied after the central parties reached a deal concerning Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp. bonds.
August 9
