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 municipal bond market is set on Tuesday for five competitive deals coming from the state of Georgia worth around $1.3 billion. Traders will be watching muni yields, which have recently been trending higher.
June 9 -
Prices of top-shelf municipal bonds finished slightly stronger on Monday, as traders kept one eye on the weeks new issue slate and another eye on the direction of muni yields.
June 8 -
Prices of top-shelf municipal bonds were mostly higher at mid-session, as traders keep one eye on the week's $7.3 billion new issue slate and another eye on yields.
June 8 -
The municipal market was looking ahead to next week's slate of bond issues, led by issuers in Georgia and New York.
June 5 -
For the fifth straight week, municipal bond funds reported outflows, bringing to eight out of 23 weeks this year the funds have suffered cash withdrawals, according to the latest Lipper data.
June 4 -
If municipal bond traders were asked to sum up the week in only one word, that word would have to be Chicago. And for Chicago, the word would be bittersweet.
May 29 -
Prices of top-rated municipal bonds were higher at mid-session, as traders look to next week's $7.05 billion municipal sale calendar, which is topped off by almost $1 billion from New York City.
May 29 -
Municipal bond traders will be looking to next week's municipal bond calendar, which is topped off by almost $1 billion of deals from New York City.
May 29 -
Prices of top-rated municipal bonds finished higher on Thursday, traders said, with yields on some maturities falling by as much as two basis points. And a day after Chicago grabbed all the headlines, municipal bond traders saw the rest of the weeks new issuance come to market.
May 28 -
Prices of top-rated municipal bonds were higher at mid-session, traders said, with yield on some maturities falling by as much as two basis points.
May 28 -
A day after Chicago grabbed all the headlines, municipal bond traders will be looking at the rest of the week's new issuance, which is set to come to market.
May 28 -
Bank of America Merrill Lynch dominated the attention of the municipal bond market on Wednesday as it priced the $668 million Chicago offering while it won the $1.24 billion of Pennsylvania bonds.
May 27 -
A group including Bank of America Merrill Lynch as senior manager on Wednesday priced the first of four city of Chicago deals that will total $668 million.
May 27 -
Municipal bond traders' attention Wednesday will be riveted on big deals coming to market from Chicago and Pennsylvania.
May 27 -
Prices of top-quality municipal bonds finished stronger on Tuesday, traders said, with yields on some maturities falling by as much as five basis points. Meanwhile, the markets attention is focused on two big deals coming from the city of Chicago and the state of Pennsylvania.
May 26 -
Prices of top-quality municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, traders said, with yields on some maturities falling by as much as three basis points.
May 26 -
Prices of top-quality municipal bonds finished steady on Friday in an abbreviated trading session as the market went into holiday mode ahead of the full close on Monday for Memorial Day.
May 22 -
Prices of top-quality municipal bonds were steady on Friday as the market was in full holiday mode ahead of the early market close and the full close on Monday for Memorial Day. Trading will stop at 2 p.m., EDT, and resume Tuesday.
May 22 -
Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. has been recognized for excellence in municipal trading with the first Standish Minority Business Enterprise Award.
May 21 -
DBRS Ltd., the Canadian credit rating agency, made its first full foray into the U.S. market last week when it rated the North Carolina Department of Transportation's $100 million private activity bond deal.
May 19
