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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More supply sold Thursday as the Chicago Transit Authority, the Austin ISD, Texas and Kern HSD, Calif., all came to market.
August 27 -
Ashton Goodfield, head of municipal bonds at DWS Group, talks with Chip Barnett about how the municipal bond market has been coping with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and what's in store for the rest of the year. (22 minutes)
August 27 -
Munis continued to weaken with yields on the AAA scales rising by as much as three basis points.
August 26 -
Municipals turned weaker on the long end Tuesday as NYC's tax-exempt GOs were priced for retail investors.
August 25 -
Municipal bonds ended unchanged on Monday ahead of this week $8 billion of new issuance.
August 24 -
Municipals were little changed on Friday after a market moved that took long yields up by as much as 15 basis points since mid-month.
August 21 -
Municipals were steady to weaker, with yields up by as much as three basis points on the long end Thursday.
August 20 -
Anu Rames of BNP Paribas Asset Management talks with Chip Barnett about “digital inequality" and the financing mechanisms available to investors to help close this "have and have not" gap in a post-pandemic world. (14 minutes)
August 20 -
The muni market steadied Wednesday as a strong dose of supply hit the screens.
August 19 -
Municipal investors are somewhat tepid on current low rates Monday ahead of the week's $`11.5 billion of new supply.
August 17 -
Municipals continued to correct, with yields on the AAA scales rising by as much as three basis points as signs point to investor pullback from current low yields.
August 14 -
Municipals were steady on Thursday a day after turning weaker for the first time in almost two months. Refinitiv Lipper reported $2.3 billion of inflows.
August 13 -
The fund has a target size of $250 million and will target minority- and women-owned business enterprises to maximize social impact.
August 13 -
Municipal yields rose as much as four basis points on Wednesday, while new issues played the field.
August 12 -
Municipal bonds were steady to weaker as billions of dollars in new deals hit the screens Tuesday.
August 11 -
Now investors have hit the reset button on municipal credit expectations and the corresponding return in demand has been quite strong.
August 10 -
Stringer sent a letter to Mayor de Blasio on Monday calling on the city to fully fund the indirect cost rate (ICR) initiative.
August 10 -
Municipals rallied Friday, with yields dropping by as much as one basis point on the long end.
August 7 -
Munis rallied all along the curve Thursday, with long end yields down by as much as four basis points.
August 6 -
Total municipal CUSIP requests fell in July after three months of increases, according to CUSIP Global Services.
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