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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Two credits struggling with coronavirus-driven revenue shortfalls experienced very different outcomes in Tuesday's market. Taxable Penn State bonds showed the appetite for taxable munis is real.
May 5 -
Continuing the firm’s national expansion, HJ Sims announced it is opening offices in Chicago and Orange County, Calif.
May 5 -
A premarketing wire indicated the deal could price at spreads 300 basis points north of benchmark yields. In Monday's trade, the rally begun last week continued.
May 4 -
Issuance in the public finance sector is likely to contract in 2020, S&P Research says.
May 1 -
A range of technical issues — from month-end accounting and financing to spread widening, price volatility and the coronavirus impact on businesses and the economy — spurred a tone of relative quiet in Thursday's trade.
April 30 -
Thursday’s jobless claims at 3.839 million, weaker income and spending data show COVID-19 continues to dampen economic activity.
April 30 -
The FOMC action came as GDP dropped 4.8% in the first quarter and pending home sales plunged 20.8% amid the pandemic.
April 29 -
Pessimism about the economic situation in the United States continues to affect the way consumers view the economy and their financial position.
April 28 -
Several of the Lone Star State's manufacturing indexes dropped to record lows in April, a Dallas Fed survey showed.
April 27 -
The Commerce Department reported that new orders for manufactured durable goods fell 14.4% in March while the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index dropped to 71.8 in April, the largest monthly decline on record.
April 24
