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 February 15, 202112:39 PM Eastern
As crazy as it seems, Apple, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is actually going to make an electric car.
According to a report Wednesday at Bloomberg, the iPhone maker will partner with Hyundai Motor Co....
By Jon D. Markman On February 12, 202106:55 AM Eastern
Managers at Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) announced last week that the company will invest $29 billion in electrification and self-driving systems through 2025.
As if this wasn’t enough of a...
By Jon D. Markman On February 10, 202112:07 PM Eastern
Fifth-generation wireless is getting an undeserved bad rap as wireless carriers overpromise blazing speed and ubiquity.
On Tuesday, managers at QUALCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) rolled out the x65...
By Jon D. Markman On February 8, 202111:35 AM Eastern
I write a lot about television and advertising because something really big is happening. Tremendous fortunes are being earned as the monetization of media transitions from linear to connected.
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By Jon D. Markman On February 5, 202101:19 PM Eastern
Our economy is transforming more rapidly than perhaps ever before. I often post about new technological breakthroughs and newsworthy topics, but today, I want to highlight five digital winners...
By Jon D. Markman On February 3, 202101:07 PM Eastern
It should now be clear that the migration to cloud computing is still in its infancy.
While investors should look for opportunistic entry levels for all of the major firms, the new leadership...
By Jon D. Markman On February 1, 202112:57 PM Eastern
Shares of GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) soared last week as the messy public standoff between professional short-sellers and newbie-online traders continued. Now, investors should begin to focus on...
By Jon D. Markman On January 29, 202112:16 PM Eastern
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) reported another blowout quarter Tuesday after the close. Despite rumors about the maturity of its cloud business, sales and profitability are accelerating.
This...
By Jon D. Markman On January 27, 202101:07 PM Eastern
As Washington lawmakers settle into familiar intransigence, investors are starting to worry again about economic growth. This is creating a buying opportunity in cyclical leaders.
Industrial and...
By Jon D. Markman On January 25, 202112:06 PM Eastern
Volkswagen spent $50 billion developing an electric vehicle to rival Tesla, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA). Then the German automaker discovered it had a software problem … it’s EVs didn’t work as...
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.
