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 market volume will rise by two-thirds to $7.45 billion in the coming week, led by a $2 billion taxable deal from California.
April 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.
April 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.
April 11 -
Municipal bonds were stronger on Wednesday as new deals from New York City and Clark County, Nev., came to market.
April 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.
April 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.
April 10 -
Traders and muni professionals said it was a typical light Monday in the municipal market — with favorable market technicals mixed with some underlying concern on the political front.
April 9 -
Retail buyers of municipal bonds got first shot at New York City’s big general obligation bond sale on Monday.
April 9 -
Weekly municipal market volume is expected to sink back below $5 billion in the coming week, making it harder for investors to price bonds.
April 6 -
Municipal market participants will return to their desks next week and see a $4.8 billion new issue calendar.
April 6 -
Traders noted some caution in the muni market ahead of Friday’s release of the March unemployment report.
April 5 -
Municipals were trading in sympathy with Treasuries on Thursday morning as the market remained quiet as it prepared for the week’s end.
April 5 -
BlackRock's Peter Hayes says that municipal bond performance in the first quarter was clearly hurt by tax reform.
April 4 -
Buyers of municipal bonds had a variety of new issues to choose from on Wednesday as deals from New Jersey, New York, California and Maryland all came to market.
April 4 -
Despite municipals being a little sidetracked as Treasuries weakened, traders said there was a more constructive nature overall to the market on Tuesday.
April 3 -
Retail buyers were offered the chance to buy the New Jersey Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.’s subordinate tobacco settlement bonds.
April 3
