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 plan is up from the previously announced 200,000 homes.
By Chip BarnettNovember 15 -
The Illinois Tollway's $300 million deal and the first part of the Chicago Board of Education’s $922 million bond offering came to market on Wednesday. In secondary trading, municipals were stronger on the day.
By Chip Barnett and Yvette ShieldsNovember 15 -
The first part of the Chicago Board of Education’s $922 million bond offering came to market on Wednesday as the board’s $64.9 million of dedicated capital improvement tax bonds were priced.
By Chip BarnettNovember 15 -
Two big deals from Illinois issuers are scheduled for sale on Wednesday as the Chicago Board of Education gets set to hit the market with the first part of its double-barreled offering and Illinois toll bonds are slated to be priced.
By Chip BarnettNovember 15 -
Competitive sales from the states of Washington and Wisconsin and negotiated deals from New York and Illinois issuers dominated Tuesday’s new issue slate.
By Chip BarnettNovember 14 -
Competitive sales from the states of Washington and Wisconsin and negotiated deals from New York and Illinois issuers dominated Tuesday’s new issue slate.
By Chip BarnettNovember 14 -
New York and Illinois deals top Tuesday’s new issue slate as municipal bond traders get ready to gobble up some deals in the primary.
By Chip BarnettNovember 14 -
Developments on the tax reform front were not far from municipal bond traders' minds as they saw the first of the week’s new issues hit the screens on Monday.
By Chip BarnettNovember 13 -
Estimated total bond volume for the week is $9.897 billion, which consists of $6.644 billion of negotiated deals and $3.253 billion of competitive sales.
By Chip BarnettNovember 13 -
Municipal bond traders will see a chunky new issue calendar this week as the market’s focus will be on Washington, where Congress will continue to work on tax reform legislation.
By Chip BarnettNovember 13 -
The municipal market will get another healthy dose of issuance in the final full week before Thanksgiving. The calendar is chock full of deals from Illinois, as all issuers look to price bonds before the tax laws change.
By Aaron Weitzman and Chip BarnettNovember 10 -
Municipal bonds were markedly weaker at midday as market participants remain fixated on the newly released Senate
tax reform proposal and how it compares with the House version.By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanNovember 10 -
Municipal bond market participants are scanning the news closely for details of tax reform provisions that affect them.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanNovember 10 -
The last of the week’s big municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday – both from California issuers – as municipals finished weaker in secondary trading.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanNovember 9 -
Although New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has invested more than $120 billion in capital improvements since 1982, the pace of investment has not kept up with the need.
By Chip BarnettNovember 9 -
Blow-back from the sell-side centered on the proposal's potential to drive up infrastructure financing costs and accelerate the departure of smaller firms from the business.
By Aaron Weitzman and Chip BarnettNovember 9 -
The last of the week’s big municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday as municipals wavered in mid-session trade.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanNovember 9 -
Market participants are waiting for the last major deal of the week to price while also hoping for some clarity on the tax reform situation.
By Aaron Weitzman and Chip BarnettNovember 9 -
Anthony Felice, Daniel Boyle, and John Martinko, all service-disabled veterans, will take over the day-to-day leadership of the company.
By Chip BarnettNovember 8 -
Deals came in waves in the busiest day of the week Wednesday, with the market firming and most issuers able to lower yields.
By Aaron Weitzman and Chip BarnettNovember 8










