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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The muni market finished out the last day of 2019 on a quiet note, with no deals priced and yields ending little changed.
December 31 -
Home price indexes rise; consumer confidence falls
December 31 -
While there are no major municipal bond sales slated for this week, next week is a different matter.
December 30 -
Pending home sales rose 1.2% in November while the Chicago Business Barometer increased in December.
December 30 -
Retail investors have felt confident in the muni bond space for most of 2019.
December 27 -
While municipal bond volume looks to end the year on a surprisingly high note, muni bond yields unexpectedly hit record lows twice in 2019.
December 26 -
Gary Hall of Siebert Williams Shank talks with Chip Barnett about the recent merger which created the largest minority- and women-owned investment bank in the U.S. He looks back at his time at the MSRB and looks ahead to what the market may see in 2020.
December 26 -
Citi sees volume growing in 2020 to $440 billion with $95 billion of taxables on tap for next year.
December 13 -
Damian Smith, Chief Diversity Officer at Societe Generale, talks with Chip Barnett about diversity and inclusion in the financial marketplace. He discusses social and cultural change and the added value of having diverse viewpoints in the workplace.
December 12 -
Muni yields rose as more bonds hit the marketplace in the last big supply rush of the week.
December 12 -
The Federal Open Market Committee left rates unchanged and looked likely to keep monetary policy on a steady course for the near term.
December 11 -
"What, me worry?" was the slogan of the muni market on Tuesday as participants forged ahead to price and buy bonds.
December 10 -
Trade worries returned among investors as the Fed meets this week to decide on interest rates.
December 9 -
In 1949, the first meeting of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York was held. Still thriving 70 years later, MAGNY will celebrate its anniversary at the Yale Club Friday.
December 9 -
American Triple I Partners LLC will work in partnership with JetBlue and JFK Millennium Partners on the Terminal 6 and 7 redevelopment project at New York’s JFK International Airport.
December 3 -
It's a feast after a feast as billions in bonds are set to hit the marketplace.
November 27 -
Continued gains attributed to increase in taxable refunding issuance.
November 27 -
Citigroup got set to price the $632 million Main Street Natural Gas deal, while Goldman Sachs prepped $315 million of Emerald Renewable Diesel bonds.
November 25 -
AmeriVet Securities has hired Francis McKenna to be its executive director of public finance.
November 21 -
Richard Taormina, head of Tax Aware Strategies at JPMorgan Asset Management, talks about the value of municipal bonds and focuses on performance, foreign demand and the effect of the tax reform legislation on the market. Chip Barnett hosts this podcast, which was recorded in early October.
November 21
