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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Issuers in California, Texas and Louisiana headlined primary market activity on Tuesday as top-quality municipal bonds ended stronger.
April 19 -
Top-quality municipal bonds were mixed at mid-session, according to traders as large deals from California, Texas and Louisiana came to market on Tuesday.
April 19 -
Interactive Datas continuous evaluated fixed-income pricing and liquidity Indicators service are now available to FactSet clients, the firms said Tuesday.
April 19 -
Municipal bond traders are set for some of the weeks biggest deals to come to market on Tuesday, led by issuers in the Golden and Lone Star states.
April 19 -
New YorkNew York State's Lean Initiative has won the Citizens Budget Commissions 2016 award for Public Service Innovation, the CBC announced on Wednesday. The prize will be presented at the CBCs annual dinner on Thursday.
April 6 -
Top quality municipal bonds were substantially stronger in early activity, according to traders, with yields on some maturities weakening by as much as five basis points.
April 5 -
Top quality municipal bonds finished mostly steady on Monday, traders said, as the first of the week's supply started to come to market with the University of Connecticut offering bonds to retail investors.
April 4 -
Top quality municipal bonds were mostly steady at mid-session, traders said, as the market awaits the first of the weeks $7.66 billion new issue pricings. The weeks calendar is broken down into $6.58 billion of negotiated deals and $1.08 billion of competitive sales.
April 4 -
The municipal bond market is set to see more supply hit the screens this week with new issue volume estimated by Ipreo at $7.66 billion.
April 4 -
Top-rated municipal bonds were steady to slightly stronger in secondary activity at mid-session, according to traders.
March 22 -
Municipal bond traders were gearing up to take on more supply Tuesday as the biggest deal of the week is set to hit the market.
March 22 -
Top shelf municipal bonds ended weaker on Monday, traders said, as the first of the weeks new issues began to sell.
March 21 -
Top shelf municipal bonds were weaker at mid-session, traders said, as the first of the weeks new issues began to sell. The market is looking at a short week, with trading closed on Friday ahead of the Easter holiday.
March 21 -
The municipal bond market is looking at a short week, with trading closed Friday for the Good Friday holiday.
March 21 -
Justin Rodriguez has been named as a Senior Vice President at Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., the firm announced on Monday. Rodriguez, who will be based in the firms San Antonio office, is responsible for transaction origination with municipal issuers in the South, Central and West Texas markets.
March 21 -
Stephen Adnopoz has been named a resident partner in charge of Pearlman & Miranda LLC's newly opened New York office and expanded public finance practice, the firm announced on Friday.
March 18 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, dropped two basis points to 4.08% from 4.10% in the previous week.
March 17 -
It was 1935. Across the United States millions of people were out of work during the Great Depression. But Herbert J. Sims had a vision -- so he borrowed some money from his mom and started a municipal bond business on Wall Street.
March 16 -
Squire Patton Boggs promoted public finance tax lawyer John W. Johnny Hutchinson to partner, the firm announced on Tuesday.
March 8 -
Top-quality municipal bonds were weaker at mid-session, traders said, ahead of next weeks $8.6 billion calendar, which is headlined by large deals from California, New York and Nevada issuers.
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