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 offers a nice variety of issues this week designed to appeal to those tax-exempt holiday shoppers looking for both quality and a good deal. The calendar consists of approximately $12.5 billion of new issue supply and traders expect the deals to be attractively priced.
December 1 -
The municipal bond market saw prices strengthen across the board as traders prepare for the week's new tax-exempt volume.
December 1 -
The municipal bond market's attention turns back to business as about $12.4 billion of new supply is scheduled for sale this week.
December 1 -
The municipal bond market looked ahead to next month's new wave of bond supply as November's activity faded away in the last few trading hours of the month.
November 26 -
Long-term municipal bond issuance rose for the fourth month in a row as volume increased 15.3% in November.
November 26 -
The municipal bond market saw the last of this month's issuance come to market on Tuesday, pretty much wrapping up this week's and this month's activity.
November 26 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, was unchanged at 4.40% in the week ending Nov. 25.
November 25 -
Municipal bond traders saw the last of this months issuance come to market on Tuesday with the biggest deal of the week pricing the $265 million Illinois State Toll Highway Authority bonds.
November 25 -
Municipal bond traders saw the last of the week's issuance come to market on Tuesday as two big deals from Illinois were scheduled to be priced and a smaller issue from New Jersey was sold in a competitive offering.
November 25 -
The municipal bond market is keeping its focus on new issues as the last of the week's supply comes to market.
November 25 -
Traders were looking at a light and tight primary municipal bond market as less than $1 billion of deals are packed into a two-day pricing window in this holiday-shortened week .
November 24 -
Municipal bond yields were little changed on Monday at mid-session as the holiday-shortened week opened on a very quiet note as traders looked to at a light primary market calendar of under $1 billion.
November 24 -
The municipal bond market took a breather on Friday as the primary was devoid of any new issuance and the secondary saw yields remain unchanged, according to Municipal Market Data.
November 21 -
The municipal bond market took a breather on Friday as the primary market was devoid of any new issuance and the secondary saw yields remain unchanged, according to a recent read of Municipal Market Data's triple-A scale.
November 21 -
The municipal bond market was sleepy in early trading Friday as next week's holiday took most participants' attention.
November 21 -
The weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, fell two basis points to 4.39% in the week ending Nov. 20 from 4.41% in the previous week.
November 20 -
The last of the big pre-holiday new issue supply hit the municipal bond market on Thursday, with the state of Connecticut taking over as the leader of the pack.
November 20 -
The last of the big pre-holiday new issue supply hit the municipal bond market on Thursday, with the state of Connecticut leading the pack.
November 20 -
Municipal bond traders will be keeping their eyes on several big deals on Thursday as market activity looks to slow down ahead of upcoming holiday week.
November 20 -
Municipal bonds kept an even keel on Wednesday, even as a boatload of new issues hit the primary market, including several deals upwards of $100 million as well as more than 50 smaller transactions.
November 19
