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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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.
August 5
