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 showed strength Tuesday in the face of new supply as long yields dipped as much as two basis points.
July 7 -
Municipals finished little changed ahead of this week's new-issue slate while retail investors are coming back into the market.
July 6 -
Yields have essentially remained flat since mid-June as the market has digested new issues well and investors are starved for paper, especially tax-exempts.
July 2 -
Marc Pfeffer, chief investment officer at CLS Investments, talks about today’s municipal bond market and looks to the future.
July 2 -
Traders and strategists say the dearth of tax-exempt debt and the surge of taxable issuance is keeping the market steady.
July 1 -
While few observers are content with the new balanced budget, many say they can live with it as they look to an uncertain economic future.
July 1 -
Municipal bonds were little changed as the first half of a tumultuous year comes to a close.
June 30 -
Municipals finished little changed as a deluge of taxable deals get ready to hit the market.
June 29 -
Municipal bonds finished mostly steady on Friday ahead of a $7.2 billion holiday week new issue calendar.
June 26 -
As some states see new coronavirus lockdowns, municipals maintain stalwart position.
June 25 -
Cooper Howard, director of fixed income strategy at the Schwab Center for Financial Research, talks about the bifurcation in the market and what investors should look at during the rest of the year.
June 25 -
Municipal bond funds and ETFs saw combined inflows of $2.942 billion in the week ended June 17, ICI said.
June 24 -
Municipals finished little changed on Tuesday in light trading activity with the summer seeming to settle in.
June 23 -
Despite this week’s smaller calendar, the recent surge of bond deals could make June the most active month of 2020.
June 22 -
The family of Alan Anders is holding a virtual memorial on Saturday, July 11, the day that he was born.
June 22 -
Municipal bonds finished a very active week little changed as participants caught their breath after seeing almost $12 billion of new issues come to market.
June 19 -
Refinitiv Lipper reported $1.7 billion of municipal bond fund inflows. while municipal prices were little changed Thursday.
June 18 -
Matt Boardman, head of fixed income for RBC Wealth Management, talks with Chip Barnett, about how the municipal bond market has changed over the past few months in light of the coronavirus pandemic. He talks about how the economic effects due to COVID-19 caused a "sudden and violent" dislocation in munis for over two months and how we’ve now returned to being a more rational and reasonable market and remains vibrant and strong.
June 18 -
The day's big new-issue slate was led by the pricing of the New York State Urban Development Corp.'s $1.3 billion deal.
June 17 -
Municipals finished weaker on Tuesday amid Treasury weakness and equity strength.
June 16
