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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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 -
The second-quarter kicked off Monday with a little more optimism among municipal market participants after "one of the worst quarters in a long, long time."
April 2 -
The municipal bond market is set to see a chunky new issue calendar this week: $7.85 billion.
April 2 -
The influx of volume may give the boost that's needed to jump-start the primary market.
March 29 -
The municipal bond market will see almost $7.9 billion of new deals head their way next week, as New Jersey tobacco's dominate the calendar.
March 29 -
Initial jobless claims fell to the lowest level since January 1973.
March 29 -
The municipal market was winding up the week on a tentative note as Connecticut offered its general obligations to institutional investors.
March 28 -
A municipal futures contract can be an effective hedging tool, attendees at The Bond Buyer’ National Municipal Bond Summit were told.
March 28 -
Kroll, making its first official foray into the sovereign bond sector, gave the United States of America its top grade.
March 28 -
Municipal bond buyers were getting a piece of Connecticut's general obligation bond deal on Wednesday.
March 28 -
Municipal traders said the market was slightly firmer on Tuesday, though a lack of new supply was still curtailing opportunity for investors.
March 27
