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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Top shelf municipals continued to weaken on Wednesday, traders said, as more supply kept on coming, with big deals from New York and Massachusetts being offered up to investors.
March 2 -
Municipal bond traders are set to see a second wave of new issue supply sweep over the market on Wednesday, the busiest primary week of 2015.
March 2 -
Municipal bonds, tax-exempt bonds, munis, primary bond market, secondary bond market, public finance, Treasury bonds, fixed-income, California, Los Angeles, LAUSD, New York, Kentucky, Delaware
March 1 -
Top quality municipal bonds were steady to weaker at mid-session, traders said as a raft of new issue supply hit the market.
March 1 -
Municipal bond traders are set to see the first of the week's healthy new issue supply come to market on Tuesday.
March 1 -
Top quality municipal bonds finished flat on Monday in quiet activity, traders said, as the market readied for a busy week, with more than $10 billion of new supply slated to hit the screens.
February 29 -
Top quality municipal bonds were flat at mid-session in quiet activity, traders said, as the market readied for a busy week with more than $10 billion of new supply slated to hit the screens.
February 29 -
Municipal bond traders are prepping on Monday for a busy week with more than $10 billion of new supply slated to hit the screens.
February 29 -
Municipal bonds ended decidedly weaker on Friday with traders looking ahead to the biggest new issue slate in almost a year as more than $10 billion of supply is set to sweep over the market. Muni volume for the upcoming week is estimated by Ipreo at $10.10 billion. The last time the market saw a bigger slate of sales was in the week of March 9, 2015.
February 26 -
Top quality municipal bonds were mostly unchanged at mid-session, traders said, as the big New York City GO deal was offered to retail investors.
February 19 -
Municipal bond traders were looking back at the deals that came to market in the holiday-shortened week and looking ahead to next week's robust slate of new issues.
February 19 -
In the week ended Feb. 18, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index rose three basis points to 4.04% from 4.01% in the previous week. The BB40 Index is based on the price of 40 long-term bonds.
February 18 -
Top-rated municipal bonds finished slightly stronger on Tuesday, according to traders who saw a wide array of new deals hit the marketplace. The bulk of the weeks more than $9 billion of new supply was priced or sold, led off by deals from issuers in New York, Texas and Washington state.
February 9 -
Top-rated municipal bonds were slightly stronger at mid-session, according to traders who saw a wide array of new deals hit the marketplace.
February 9 -
Thomas Schuette has been promoted to Partner and Co-Head of Portfolio Management at Gurtin Fixed Income Management LLC, the firm announced on Monday. Schuette's promotion is aimed at bringing the credit research and portfolio management teams closer together.
February 8 -
WashingtonThe District of Columbia issued $103 million of tax-exempt bonds this week to help finance construction of the first national museum dedicated to telling the story of law enforcement in America.
January 29 -
Municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, traders said, ahead of next week's $5.4 billion new issue slate.
January 29 -
Municipal bond traders were finishing up their week's work, a substantially lighter-than-expected load after the week's calendar was reduced by $875 million when the Chicago Public Schools postponed its general obligation bond deal.
January 29 -
Almost 50% of market participants at The Bond Buyer's 2016 National Outlook Conference believe the Federal Reserve will hike rates only twice in 2016, according to a live market survey. Muni Market issuance was also see moving along at a fast pace this year.
January 26 -
Municipals finished stronger on Monday, according to traders, with yields on some top-quality maturities falling by as much as one basis point. The market is looking at a $5.42 billion new issue calendar, which consists of $3.82 billion of negotiated deals and $1.60 billion of competitive sales.
January 25
