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 January 22, 202109:59 AM Eastern
Investors should get ready for a change in narrative. This week, when President Joe Biden took the oath of office, healthcare once again took center stage.
And it’s a big, new opportunity.
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By Jon D. Markman On January 20, 202111:36 AM Eastern
One of the biggest errors investors make is zero-sum gaming everything. Like those who spouted the entrance of The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) into the streaming competition meant the end of...
By Jon D. Markman On January 15, 202101:46 PM Eastern
Buckle up. The space exploration sector is about to blast off and stock prices will never be the same.
Space stocks surged Thursday after ARK Investment, a management firm that fills its ETFs...
By Jon D. Markman On January 15, 202110:59 AM Eastern
These past few weeks have been a wild ride for technology investors.
The process began last week when insurgents briefly took control of Capitol Hill and escalated when managers at Twitter, Inc....
By Jon D. Markman On January 13, 202112:36 PM Eastern
Bearish investors claim there is not enough money around. Well, it appears they haven’t heard the IPO for Affirm Holdings (Nasdaq: AFRM), an online consumer finance company, is coming this week.
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By Jon D. Markman On January 11, 202101:46 PM Eastern
All of President Trump’s social media accounts have been suspended, creating a firestorm over the role of big tech in public discourse.
But as the controversy intensifies, investors should see a...
By Jon D. Markman On January 8, 202112:47 PM Eastern
It’s the start of a new year, and traders are instinctively throwing out stocks that performed best the previous year in favor of laggards … but this is a huge mistake.
Many of the stocks...
By Jon D. Markman On January 6, 202102:16 PM Eastern
Future cars will be mostly electric, automatically avoid accidents and affordable.
You may already know some of the big electric vehicle manufactures like Tesla, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) and NIO Ltd....
By Jon D. Markman On January 4, 202101:41 PM Eastern
Clean energy momentum has been building for more than a decade, but now it’s really set to accelerate.
President-elect Joe Biden faces a divided Congress, yet on Friday Politico reported that he...
By Jon D. Markman On January 1, 202101:00 PM Eastern
High flying technology stocks started strong on Monday after the holiday break … before running into a torrent of selling in the first hour.
That pressure did not relent until the closing...
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.
