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.

Articles

The market has been behaving oddly recently. Cyclical issues were leading by a wide margin until last Friday, when the latest nonfarm payroll data came in weaker than expected. Since then, bond...
American politicians are worried about the rise of China as a tech power. Now, they are finally doing something about the threat. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the U.S. Innovation and...
The global pandemic unleashed a torrent of biotechnology innovation. Now, several firms are pushing the new technologies beyond COVID-19. On Wednesday, managers at Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA)...
From electrification to new mobility models, the automotive business is in a state of flux. Yet the biggest disruptor is coming out of left field: interior display screens. Last week, analysts...
Stocks are once again moving higher on good news. More positive investor sentiment could mean broadly higher stock prices in the near term. This was on display last Friday as two digital winners...
A global pandemic and 30 million people unemployed didn’t kill the domestic stock market. So, it’s hard to imagine that a robust economic recovery will do the trick. Yet, that is exactly the case...
Investors can learn a great deal from market volatility. Gut-wrenching ups and downs expose weak hands. Twists and turns reveal which investments are truly safe. It’s important for investors to...
Big tech is in the crosshairs of government politicos … but investors shouldn’t worry because we’ve seen these types of antics before. On Tuesday, Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine...
Managers at Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) were all smiles last Thursday at the official reveal for the Lightning, an electric version of their famous F-150 pickup truck. The grins were warranted....
The biggest tech platforms are using their vast ecosystems to bludgeon the competition … and they are only getting started. On Monday, managers at Apple, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced that Apple...

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.

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