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 city of Los Angeles is set to offer $1.46 billion of tax and revenue anticipation notes on Tuesday, June 21, in what will be the largest TRAN offering in the United States this year.
By Chip BarnettJune 16 -
Top-rated municipal bonds were steady to stronger at mid-session, according to traders, who are preparing for the start of a week which includes a manageable supply slate and a meeting of the Federal Reserve.
By Chip BarnettJune 13 -
Municipal bond traders are preparing for the start of a new week, which will see a manageable new issue slate of about $5.7 billion and the possibility of new record low muni rates. The market will also be keeping watch on the Federal Reserve which meets this week to decide the course of monetary policy.
By Chip BarnettJune 13 -
Top-quality municipal bonds finished stronger on Friday, as the yield on Municipal Market Data's 30-year muni general obligation fell to its fourth straight record low.
By Chip BarnettJune 10 -
Top-quality municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, as the market took a brief respite ahead of the upcoming week's $5.7 billion new issue slate.
By Chip BarnettJune 10 - New York
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that he and the City Council had reached agreement on a final $82.1 billion budget for Fiscal 2017, the earliest the two sides had approved a fiscal plan in 15 years.
By Chip BarnettJune 8 -
Top-shelf municipal bonds ended stronger on Tuesday, according to traders, with the yield on the 30-year municipal falling into record low territory. In the primary, Georgia and a Maryland issuer sold a bevy of competitive offerings and a New York issuer came to market with a negotiated airport deal.
By Chip BarnettJune 7 -
Top-shelf municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, as the state of Georgia and a Maryland issuer competitively sold a bevy of big, high-quality offerings.
By Chip BarnettJune 7 -
Municipal bond traders are set to see the first of the week's big new issues hit the screens starting on Tuesday, the state of Georgia sells about $1.37 billion by competitive bid.
By Chip BarnettJune 7 -
Top-quality municipal bonds finished steady on Monday, traders said, as they awaited $12.7 billion of new supply, which is set to start hitting the market on Tuesday.
By Chip BarnettJune 6 -
A record $6 billion of competitive bond and note sales have been placed on next weeks calendar, including billion dollar-plus megadeals from the states of Georgia and Maryland.
By Chip BarnettJune 3 - Wisconsin
Dana Lach has returned to Foley & Lardners healthcare finance, public finance and finance and financial institutions practices, the law firm announced on Thursday. She will be working out of the firms Milwaukee office.
By Chip BarnettMay 26 -
Frank Dos Santos has been named head of North America Business Strategy for Markits Fixed-Income Pricing service, the firm announced on Tuesday.
By Chip BarnettMay 24 - Massachusetts
Mass. Gov. Charles Baker released a $4 billion capital plan for Fiscal Year 2017 that includes a $2.19 billion cap on general obligation bond issuance, a 3% increase over the previous fiscal year.
By Chip BarnettMay 20 -
Bankruptcy attorney Mark Kaufman has joined King & Spalding as a partner in its Atlanta and Washington, D.C., offices, the firm announced. He was formerly at Dentons, where he was a partner.
By Chip BarnettMay 20 - Rhode Island
Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner nominated Sylvia Maxfield to serve on the State Investment Commission and Dr. Laura Shawhughes to serve on the State Retirement Board.
By Chip BarnettMay 20 -
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys operation of its federally mandated Access-A-Ride program has been marked by waste, mismanagement and widespread service failures, according to an audit released on Tuesday by Comptroller Scott M. Stringer.
By Chip BarnettMay 18 -
Black Enterprise magazine has named Loop Capital Markets as its "Financial Services Company of the Year."
By Chip BarnettMay 16 - New York
New York City, NYC, Bill de Blasio, Dean Fuleihan, Fiscal 2017, Executive Budget, H+H, Health and Hospitals, Debt Service
By Chip BarnettMay 13 -
For the 32nd straight week, municipal bond funds reported inflows, according to Lipper data released Thursday. Weekly reporting funds saw $1.212 billion of inflows in the week ended May 11, after inflows of $709.727 million in the previous week, Lipper said.
By Chip BarnettMay 12















