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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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 -
Municipal bond buyers are seeing some supply hit the market on Tuesday as they look ahead to next week for the biggest deal of the year to date.
March 27 -
As muni investors looked ahead to another week of limited supply, a report from BlackRock recommended taking a flexible strategy.
March 26 -
Securities industry profits surged in 2017, as the the bonus pool hit an estimated $31.4 billion, according to an New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
March 26 -
The municipal bond market on Monday is eyeing this week's small holiday calendar of new issues, which is dominated by taxable deals.
March 26 -
The veteran-owned firm hires Jon Welch as director of public finance, based in San Diego.
March 23 -
This week's miniature muni slate of under $3 billion means deals should have little trouble attracting investors.
March 19 -
The municipal bond market is facing two big challenges this week -- smaller-than-average supply and a monetary policy meeting of the Federal Reserve.
March 19 -
After back to back weeks of decent issuance, the primary muni market will get with a reality check of weekly issuance below $3 billion, thanks mostly to continued tax reform fallout.
March 16 -
Herman Charbonneau, known as "The Walking Encyclopedia of Municipal Bonds," plans to retire at the end of the month.
March 16 -
Supply plunges for the upcoming week, with Ipreo estimating volume at only at $2.9 billion, down from this week’s revised total of $5.0 billion, according to updated data from Thomson Reuters.
March 16 -
A spate of deals priced, as investors put more money into long-term municipal bond funds.
March 15 -
More supply hit the municipal bond market on Thursday as JPMorgan Securities won a sale from a rarely seen New York issuer and Morgan Stanley priced a big Florida deal.
March 15 -
New York City Transitional Finance Authority was able to cut yields amid healthy demand for its $1 billion bond sale Wednesday, as a drop in CUSIP requests signaled the supply drought may continue.
March 14 -
Jefferies priced the New York City Transitional Finance Authority’s $1 billion of building aid revenue bonds and competitively sold $75 million of taxables.
March 14 -
Two New York issuers dominated the municipal bond market on Tuesday, bringing over $2 billion of new supply.
March 13
