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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Rates remain stagnant even as UST rallied Monday. Large deals from NYC and Texas issuers are on deck for Tuesday.
September 21 -
Investment banker Suzanne Shank and professor Michael Barr to serve on its Board of Trustees.
September 21 -
Treasurer Shawn Wooden, the country's only Black elected state treasurer, spoke about diversity and inclusion to the Northeast Women in Public Finance.
September 21 -
On Friday, municipals finished little changed, with yields remaining steady along most of the AAA GO scales.
September 18 -
The new-issue market saw deals from Houston, the Illinois Finance Authority and the City and County of San Francisco, Calif., hit the screens.
September 17 -
Duane McAllister and Lyle Fitterer of Baird talk with Chip Barnett about low rates and credit quality. They discuss the best scenarios for investors and issuers in these challenging times. (20 minutes)
September 17 -
Secondary trading picked up somewhat while the new-issue market saw a large amount of taxables in the negotiated space while Pennsylvania competitively sold $470 million of general obligation bonds.
September 16 -
The Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority may issue $250 million of tax-exempt capital fund modernization program refunding bonds the week of Sept. 28.
September 15 -
"Yields are just still so remarkably low," a New York City trader said.
September 14 -
Municipals held firm ahead of a strong supply stream of bonds in a calendar heavy with taxable and green bond deals.
September 11 -
Longer-dated municipals strengthened Thursday as transportation deals from Oregon, Texas and Atlanta issuers came to market.
September 10 -
Muni yields fell a basis point on some AAA curves Wednesday as deals from Maryland and California hit the screens.
September 9 -
The fluid nature of municipal credit during the coronavirus is countering what are 'fairly solid technical factors' for the market while participants await news out of Washington for more stimulus.
September 8 -
As the long Labor Day holiday beckoned, munis remained mostly steady in quiet trading. Cal trades up.
September 4 -
Refinitiv Lipper reported $139.364 million of muni fund inflows, the 17th week in a row of positive results, but the lowest gain since July.
September 3 -
Nick Bucklin, vice president and portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton, talks with Chip Barnett about ESG investing and why municipal green bonds are an important component of an investor’s portfolio. (19 minutes)
September 3 -
The Florida State Board of Administration Finance Corp. deal was upsized by $1 billion on a day that gave muni buyers a wide variety of paper to choose from.
September 2 -
September got off to a good start as buyers had their pick of a variety of new issues, which priced into a stable market environment.
September 1 -
Price guidance was issued on California's $2.4 billion GO deal as the State of New York Mortgage Agency got ready for its first social bond issue as the ESG muni market expands.
August 31 -
Municipals were weaker on Friday, with yields on the long end finishing out the day up one basis point. Since Aug. 12, when the muni market correction began and yields moved off record low levels, the yield on 10-year muni has risen by 23 basis points while the 30-year yield is up 29 basis points, according to Refinitiv MMD.
August 28
