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 November 13, 202009:00 AM Eastern
Bearish investors are warning that the entire tech rally was built on the false premise of digital transformation. As evidence, they point to the weakness in technology shares on Monday.
Don’t...
By Jon D. Markman On November 11, 202011:39 AM Eastern
Shots were fired in the high stakes world of microprocessors yesterday, and the news is really bad for Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC, Rated “C”), the world’s largest maker of those chips.
Apple Inc....
By Jon D. Markman On November 9, 202002:55 PM Eastern
The growth of connected TV is soaring and The Trade Desk, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTD, Rated “C”), a programmatic advertising platform, should continue to reap most of the rewards.
The Ventura,...
By Jon D. Markman On November 6, 202002:00 AM Eastern
It’s Wall Street folklore that beating Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN, Rated “B”) in retail is impossible, but shareholders of Farfetch Limited (NYSE: FTCH, Rated “D”) would beg to differ.
On...
By Jon D. Markman On November 4, 202012:48 PM Eastern
It’s election time and investors are making the same mistake they always make … setting objectives based on who sits in the White House.
On Tuesday, Bespoke Investment Group put out an...
By Jon D. Markman On November 2, 202001:05 PM Eastern
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP, Rated “B-”) issued terrible financial guidance last week and the shares of software stocks everywhere followed the European software giant sharply lower.
The problems at SAP...
By Jon D. Markman On October 30, 202001:00 PM Eastern
There is a gold rush to connect customers, data and sales marketing, and Twilio Inc. (NYSE: TWLO, Rated “D”) is making the best-in-class tools application developers need.
The San...
By Jon D. Markman On October 28, 202001:41 PM Eastern
Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGN, Rated “C”) reported sparkling results Wednesday night, pushing shares of the Invisalign orthodontics maker to a record high, and the future is even...
By Jon D. Markman On October 26, 202012:49 PM Eastern
Media executives are concerned that the days of easy money are over. The surprising beneficiary is The Trade Desk, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTD, Rated “C”) — a digital ad platform most investors still don’t...
By Jon D. Markman On October 23, 202001:00 PM Eastern
On Monday, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM, Rated “C”) reported third-quarter financial results. They were terrible, again. The continued travails of Big Blue should be a lesson...
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.
