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 bond traders are finishing up a sleepy week where very little happened in the secondary and the primary was even quieter.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 7 -
Top rated municipal bonds ended weaker on Thursday, traders said, as only a few smaller-sized bond sales hit the primary market.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 6 -
Drexel Hamilton hired Roger Anderson as senior vice president, expanding its municipal finance team.
By Chip BarnettJuly 6 -
Top-rated municipal bonds were weaker in quiet midday trading, traders said, as only a few smaller-sized bond sales hit the primary market.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 6 -
The municipal bond market was expected to remain quiet on Thursday, with only a few smaller-sized bond sales set to be priced in the primary, and action in the secondary expected to remain muted.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 6 -
Municipalities across the U.S. have an opportunity to re-purpose underused and undervalued assets, according to RBC Capital Markets and HR&A Advisors.
By Chip BarnettJuly 6 -
Top-quality municipal bonds finished mixed on Wednesday, according to traders, who returned to work after the Fourth of July holiday to see a $130.4 million new issue calendar, the smallest of the year.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 5 -
College-bound high school seniors from across New York City got their first introduction to the world of public finance on Wednesday when they attended a special bond class organized by The Municipal Forum of New York and Futures and Options.
By Chip BarnettJuly 5 -
Top-quality municipal bonds were weaker at mid-session, according to traders who returned to work after the Fourth of July holiday to see a $130.4 million new issue calendar, the smallest of the year.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 5 -
Municipal bond traders are returning to work after the Fourth of July holiday only to see a $130.4 million new issue calendar, the smallest of the year.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 5 -
Top-rated municipal bonds finished weaker on Monday in a quiet pre-holiday-shortened trading session.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 3 -
The municipal bond market was quiet on Monday ahead an early close to trading and Tuesday’s full close for the Fourth of July holiday.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJuly 3 -
Issuance is forecast to screech almost to a halt during the July 4th holiday shortened week.
By Aaron Weitzman and Chip BarnettJune 30 -
Top shelf municipal bonds were unchanged at mid-session as traders prepared for next week’s almost non-existent new issue calendar. Ipreo estimates volume at $130.4 million, down from a revised total of $6.02 billion sold this week, according to updated data from Thomson Reuters.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJune 30 -
Municipal bond traders are preparing for next week’s almost non-existent new issue calendar as they get ready for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJune 30 -
Bonds were hit Thursday by a combination of global central bank comments, strong Eurozone economic data, and rising expectations of another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve this year.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJune 29 -
Aetna is moving its corporate headquarters to Manhattan, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday. The health insurance company will move from Hartford, Conn., to its new headquarters at 61 9th Avenue by the end of 2018.
By Chip BarnettJune 29 -
Municipal bonds were weaker as yields rose as much as seven basis points. In the primary, the N.Y. MTA postponed its $700 million green bond deal while Goldman priced the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power’s bonds.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJune 29 -
Municipal bond traders are eyeing yields on the rise as the primary gets set to see the last of the big deals of the week hit the market on Thursday.
By Chip Barnett and Aaron WeitzmanJune 29 -
Puerto Rico Title III Judge Laura Taylor Swain retained control over deciding about the island's sales tax bonds and diminished the Oversight Board’s role in the case at Wednesday’s hearing.
By Robert Slavin and Chip BarnettJune 28












