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 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.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 23 -
New York issues again dominate as the bond calendar dips to $5.3 billion in the new week.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 20 -
Municipal bond volume will dip to a more average 2018 level next week.
By Christine Albano and Chip BarnettJuly 20 -
New issues were well spoken for on Thursday as hungry investors with available cash participated in the largest deals of the week.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 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.
By Chip BarnettJuly 19 -
Municipal bond market participants are seeing the last of the week’s healthy new issue slate hit screens.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 19 -
Buyers vied for volume as a bevy of bonds priced in the primary on Wednesday.
By Christine Albano and Chip BarnettJuly 18 -
More municipal supply is set to hit the screens on Wednesday as buyers get ready to vie for volume in a tight market.
By Christine Albano and Chip BarnettJuly 18 -
Municipal bond buyers on Tuesday snapped up deals from New Jersey, New York City and Texas issuers.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 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.
By Chip BarnettJuly 17 -
Municipal bond buyers were rewarded as a bevy of new deals hitting the market on Tuesday.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 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.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 16 -
Municipal bond buyers are patiently awaiting sizable new issues to set the tone for the rest of the week.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 16 -
In 2016, the NYC Comptroller’s Office awarded more than 30% of underwriter contracts to MWBEs.
By Chip BarnettJuly 16 -
Investors began lining up for the New York City Transitional Finance Authority’s nearly $1 billion building aid revenue bond offering on Friday.
By Christine Albano and Chip BarnettJuly 13 -
Ipreo estimates weekly bond volume at $9.2 billion, consisting of $7.5 billion of negotiated deals and $1.7 billion of competitive sales.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 13 -
Munis finished mixed as California State, Los Angeles Airport and L.A. County Facilities Inc. hit the market.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 12 -
New York City’s Department of Finance continues to pay businesses that owe millions of dollars in past due taxes, according to an audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer.
By Chip BarnettJuly 12 -
Municipals were mixed at mid-session as the last of the week’s big deals came to market, led by a bond offering out of California and a note sale from Colorado.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoJuly 12


















