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 bonds were ending stronger on Tuesday as several large, high-grade deals led by Georgia and Denver swept into the market.
June 19 -
Municipal bonds were stronger on Tuesday as several large deals swept into the market.
June 19 -
Municipal bonds held firm on Monday ahead of the week’s two biggest deals on opposite ends of the credit spectrum.
June 18 -
Municipals were mostly stronger at mid-session, as the market waits for the start of the week’s moderately sized new issue calendar.
June 18 -
Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes slipped this month.
June 18 -
Municipal bond buyers are looking with anticipation at the week’s calendar and the arrival of a big California tobacco bond deal.
June 15 -
Ipreo estimates weekly municipal volume at $7 billion, up from a revised total of $6.76 billion this week.
June 15 -
The University of Michigan's preliminary June consumer sentiment index reading roses to 99.3 compared to the final May read of 98.0.
June 15 -
Total industrial output was 3.5% higher in May than it was a year earlier.
June 15 -
New York State business activity continued to grow strongly in June, according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey.
June 15 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index rose to 4.00% in the week ended June 14.
June 14 -
Municipal bonds were mixed on Thursday as a New York issuer competitively sold $1.6 billion of notes.
June 14 -
Municipals qwere mixed a day after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates while in the primary, a New York issuer competitively sold $1.6 billion of notes.
June 14 -
The consent decree that New York City has signed with federal prosecutors over problems at the Housing Authority will not have a negative impact on the $89.15 billion Fiscal 2019 budget.
June 13 -
Municipal bonds turned weaker after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates.
June 13 -
The municipal bond market is waiting for the Federal Open Market Committee interest rate announcement.
June 13 -
Municipal bonds weakened Tuesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting as new supply headed into the marketplace.
June 12 -
Municipal bonds weakened Tuesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting as new supply headed into the marketplace.
June 12 -
Muni bond buyers were wary ahead of this week’s smaller-than-average new issue calendar as Federal Reserve policy makers gathered.
June 11 -
Municipal bonds were mixed ahead of this week’s smaller-than-average new issue calendar and the FOMC meeting.
June 11
