Pivotal Point
Turning points in history and in the markets can help you transform small grubstakes into not-so-small fortunes. Or they can trip up your finances for months, even years. This free e-letter will not only keep you one step ahead of the news, but it will also help you identify the pivotal point in time when a major turn is near.
By Jon D. Markman On July 5, 202103:00 PM Eastern
The seamy underbelly of the capital markets is about to be put under a microscope. The catalyst is the coming out party for Robinhood Markets, Inc., one of the most popular trading platforms.
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By Jon D. Markman On July 2, 202103:00 PM Eastern
Tech investors should be smiling. The power of the digital transformation was on full display Monday, and investor reaction is bad news for pessimists.
After the stock market closed last Friday,...
By Jon D. Markman On June 30, 202103:00 PM Eastern
Few investors originally saw it coming, yet a once small e-commerce software developer out of Canada is on the verge of becoming the industry behemoth.
Managers at Shopify Inc. (NYSE: SHOP)...
By Jon D. Markman On June 28, 202112:00 AM Eastern
Biotechnology is near a watershed moment. For the first time, gene editing has been shown to work effectively in humans.
According to trial data released Saturday by Intellia Therapeutics, Inc....
By Jon D. Markman On June 25, 202103:00 PM Eastern
After last week’s hawkish Fed news, investors were frantic selling and worrying about the health of the domestic economy. Now, traders seem to have had an epiphany … realizing they overreacted....
By Jon D. Markman On June 23, 202103:00 PM Eastern
It’s rare for a set of earbuds not made by Apple, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) to cause so much excitement. It’s even more rare for the buzz to be centered around the packaging.
The latest...
By Jon D. Markman On June 21, 202103:30 PM Eastern
The global video game market in 2021 is expected to reach $178 billion. Now, one of the major players in that ecosystem wants to disrupt everything.
The E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) — the...
By Jon D. Markman On June 18, 202102:51 PM Eastern
Everything that seemed to be driving stock prices a month ago has been flipped upside down. Tech is cool again.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is slightly down this week, but it’s still very...
By Jon D. Markman On June 16, 202103:00 PM Eastern
On Monday, the headline announcement was that Tesla, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) might start accepting Bitcoin (BTC) as payment again.
The volatile and young crypto market — which is always in search of...
By Jon D. Markman On June 14, 202103:00 PM Eastern
Imagine automobiles so intelligent that they could recognize, welcome and understand a driver’s likely destination on approach. Now, imagine how much that service would be worth.
On Thursday,...
About the Editor
Jon D. Markman is winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding financial journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. He was also on Los Angeles Times staffs that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He invented Microsoft’s StockScouter, the world’s first online app for analyzing and picking stocks.
