March 2023

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“I don’t know why brands think this is acceptable,” Bodge says. “It’s another punch to the gut as we’re trying to manage our budgets right now,” she adds, referring to rising prices across consumer goods categories due to inflation.  The phenomenon known as the “pink tax,” when products and services…

Shares of Enphase Energy Inc. ENPH, +4.83% jumped 5% Monday after analysts at Raymond James raised their rating on the stock to the equivalent of buy, saying they are “turning positive” on the energy technology company for the first time in a decade. “This upgrade is partly opportunistic and partly…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Corporate insiders are aggressively selling their shares. This is worrisome because corporate insiders — officers, directors and the largest shareholders — presumably know more about their companies’ prospects than the rest of us do. If they were confident that the shares of their companies would…

The Kia Sportage Plug-In Hybrid is a Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Award winner for 2023. Pricing starts at $38,690.The 2023 Kia Sportage Plug-in Hybrid compact SUV is an all-new variant of a new Sportage generation. The 2023 model year marks the debut of this popular SUV’s fifth iteration. The entire range encompasses versions…

I’ve inherited a house in San Francisco from my aunt.My aunt had rented her basement to an older couple (probably illegally) for a few years for below market rates. I don’t believe there was a lease, and it is probably against the building code to have tenants in the basement.…

First Republic Bank fell to an all-time low Monday as questions about its balance sheet and financial health sharply knocked down the stock, even as reports surfaced of prospects for fresh capital. JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +1.06% Chief Executive Jamie Dimon is working to raise additional capital for First…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — The most cited bullish argument these days, at least among the couple of hundred investment advisers I monitor, is that the stock market will “melt up” as investors sour on bonds and transfer the trillions they have in fixed-income mutual funds into stock funds. I…

A white-shoe law firm is working with Credit Suisse bondholders to pursue “possible legal actions” after the value of convertible bonds issued by the bank was written down to zero following the takeover of the Zurich-based lender by crosstown rival UBS Group. Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan said…

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