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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Requests for municipal bond identifiers rose in June for the fourth month in a row as the Dormitory Authority of New York sold $1.79 billion of bonds to a supply-starved market.
July 11 -
Municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session as a swell of supply swept into the market on Wednesday.
July 11 -
BlackRock says relative valuations and historical seasonal trends suggest favorable conditions for municipals.
July 10 -
Municipal bond buyers were seeing the first of the week’s deals come to market as two big competitive issues sold.
July 10 -
While munis turned in a mostly solid performance on Monday, a Charles Schwab & Co. report said they are less likely to outperform Treasurys in the second half.
July 9 -
Consumer credit rose $24.56 billion in May to $3.898 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported.
July 9 -
Munis were firm at mid-session as traders get set to see some much-anticipated supply hit the screens this week.
July 9 -
The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index increased to 108.94 in June from 107.72 in May.
July 9 -
Municipal bond activity returns to a near-normal level as a slew of deals heads into the market, led by New York and California issuers.
July 6 -
Ipreo estimates weekly bond volume at $6.6 billion, consisting of $5.5 billion of negotiated deals and $1.2 billion of competitive sales.
July 6 -
Municipals remained stronger into the close on Thursday as the minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting were released.
July 5 -
A sluggish and somewhat skittish tone kicked off the post-July 4th trading on Thursday.
July 5 -
Muni finished stronger Tuesday in an abbreviated trading session. Markets are closed Wednesday and trading will resume on Thursday.
July 3 -
Municipals were stronger as bond market participants were winding up their activity ahead of the early close.
July 3 -
Three rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court this term will have a lasting impact on the finances of many municipal bond issuers, Fiera Capital says.
July 2 -
Some Puerto Rico issues were trading lower on Monday after a federal watchdog approved a revised budget for the commonwealth over the weekend.
July 2 -
The municipal market will see only $74 million of deals in a holiday-shortened week, raising demand for supply the week after.
June 29 -
Ipreo estimates weekly bond volume at $73.8 million, consisting only of competitive sales and no negotiated deals.
June 29 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index slipped to 3.98% from 3.99% last week.
June 28 -
Municipal market activity remained quiet Thursday afternoon wrapping up a week in which investors snapped up some large new issues.
June 28
