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 New York State Financial Control Board went into "sunset mode" for a 32nd straight year.
July 26 -
Municipal bond buyers were singing “I love New York” on Wednesday as they grabbed bonds from two Empire State issuers.
July 25 -
Two big New York issuers came to market on Wednesday as municipal bonds were little changed in secondary action.
July 25 -
California’s Infrastructure bank hit the municipal market with a big note offering on Monday, while a New York City Transitional Finance Authority deal was offered to retail buyers.
July 24 -
The big New York City issue was priced for retail investors and a large California note issue was offered to buyers, while municipals turned weaker in secondary trade.
July 24 -
Municipals turned weaker on Monday as traders prepared their strategies ahead of the week’s issuance.
July 23 -
Redemption demand should continue to surface this week even with the arrival of new issuance, municipal sources said.
July 23 -
New York issues again dominate as the bond calendar dips to $5.3 billion in the new week.
July 20 -
Municipal bond volume will dip to a more average 2018 level next week.
July 20 -
New issues were well spoken for on Thursday as hungry investors with available cash participated in the largest deals of the week.
July 19 -
The loss of the SALT deduction cost New Yorkers an additional $14.3 billion in 2018, state Attorney General Barbara Underwood told the Citizens Budget Commission.
July 19 -
Municipal bond market participants are seeing the last of the week’s healthy new issue slate hit screens.
July 19 -
Buyers vied for volume as a bevy of bonds priced in the primary on Wednesday.
July 18 -
More municipal supply is set to hit the screens on Wednesday as buyers get ready to vie for volume in a tight market.
July 18 -
Municipal bond buyers on Tuesday snapped up deals from New Jersey, New York City and Texas issuers.
July 17 -
NYC Comptroller Stringer is calling on the state legislature to approve a municipal bond act to help the MTA fix "ADA Transit Deserts" that leave senior and disabled New Yorkers stranded.
July 17 -
Municipal bond buyers were rewarded as a bevy of new deals hitting the market on Tuesday.
July 17 -
The week's primary activity got off to a mixed start as the NYC TFA rounded up more retail orders on its big sale.
July 16 -
Municipal bond buyers are patiently awaiting sizable new issues to set the tone for the rest of the week.
July 16 -
In 2016, the NYC Comptroller’s Office awarded more than 30% of underwriter contracts to MWBEs.
July 16
