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 March 10, 202111:45 AM Eastern
Technology stocks have come roaring back. Now, investors are questioning if fears of higher interest rates and stretched valuations have been overdone.
The Nasdaq Composite index soared 464...
By Jon D. Markman On March 8, 202102:54 PM Eastern
Artificial intelligence will replace scientists, and deep learning will create robots that read. It’s crazy, true and coming faster than most investors believe.
That lede was created by GPT-3, a...
By Jon D. Markman On March 5, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Another shot in the battle for the future of television was fired on Monday after the close.
Managers at Roku, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROKU) announced plans to buy the advanced TV advertising platform of...
By Jon D. Markman On March 3, 202112:56 PM Eastern
The automotive world is making an important digital transformation. Cars and trucks are getting safer and smarter thanks to silicon and software that makes sense of the real world.
The digital...
By Jon D. Markman On March 1, 202101:47 PM Eastern
With daily COVID-19 vaccinations sweeping broadly higher, many investors are betting dark days lay ahead for stay-at-home stocks like Etsy, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETSY).
But that line of thinking is a...
By Jon D. Markman On February 26, 202101:00 PM Eastern
Tesla, Inc. (Nasdaq: TLSA) shares saw a decline earlier this week as traders finally bailed out of the high-flyer.
But not all players in the automotive industry are having as rough of a week....
By Jon D. Markman On February 24, 202104:00 AM Eastern
Electric vehicle and clean-tech stocks were hammered Tuesday, and analysts from at least one Wall Street investment research firm expect the carnage to continue for some time.
The head...
By Jon D. Markman On February 22, 202112:58 PM Eastern
On paper, the merging of artificial intelligence and healthcare should yield big results. Yet technology firms entering the market, like International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), have...
By Jon D. Markman On February 19, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. (NYSE: BAH) has been under pressure since the end of January when the public-sector contractor reported financial results that were slightly below plan.
The...
By Jon D. Markman On February 17, 202101:05 PM Eastern
Israeli company Redefine Meat developed technology to 3Dprint meat and investors are scrambling to gobble up a piece.
On Tuesday, managers at the company said they raised $29 million from a...
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.
