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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Some say cheapness on the short end of the municipal yield curve is starting to boost investor demand.
April 19 -
Big Apple pension funds plan to divest from fossil fuel investments within five years.
By Chip BarnettApril 19 -
Morgan Stanley priced $575 million of airport system bonds for Sacramento County.
April 19 -
Deals from Connecticut and Ohio issuers arrived as some buyside participants complained of low volume and inactivity in the muni market.
April 18 -
MTA's Patrick McCoy, Nixon Peabody's John Bove and Lowes Corp.'s Caroline Cruise will receive awards at the annual dinner.
By Chip BarnettApril 18 -
Two big education deals are slated to hit the market on Wednesday, with deals coming from issuers in Connecticut and Ohio.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoApril 18 -
California came to market with a $2.15 billion general obligation bond deal as JPMorgan priced the big taxable offering
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoApril 17 -
The municipal market is seeing several new deals hit the screens ahead of the big taxable deal from California.
By Chip Barnett and Christine AlbanoApril 17 -
Municipal bonds held were firm ahead of California's $2.2 billion taxable offering, which is being marketed to international investors.
By Chip BarnettApril 16 -
Muni performance is looking good this month, as California gets set to sell $2.2 billion of taxable general obligation bonds.
By Chip BarnettApril 16 -
Municipal market volume will rise by two-thirds to $7.45 billion in the coming week, led by a $2 billion taxable deal from California.
By Aaron Weitzman and Chip BarnettApril 13 -
California’s $2.2 billion taxable sale is in the spotlight as the market gets set for a $7.5 billion supply slate.
April 13 -
U.S. cities are on the front line of defense when responding to climate disasters, according to a new report from Kroll.
By Chip BarnettApril 13 -
The imbalance of supply and demand continues to crimp activity for some municipal bond professionals.
April 12 -
Municipal bonds remained stronger as a high-grade deal from Charlotte, N.C., came to market.
April 12 -
Data released by CUSIP suggests municipal issuance may be strong in the second quarter of the year.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanApril 11 -
Municipal bonds were stronger on Wednesday as new deals from New York City and Clark County, Nev., came to market.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanApril 11 -
The Big Apple should be prepared to weather a big downturn, so the City Council is urging the mayor to put additional reserves into his budget proposal.
By Chip BarnettApril 10 -
The old saw that rising rates are bad for bonds may not really be the case, one new report says.
April 10 -
Despite the previous technical difficulties of supply and demand, municipals are poised for a potentially stronger second quarter, according to Jeffrey Lipton, managing director of credit research at Oppenheimer & Co.
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