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 September 4, 202012:55 PM Eastern
Investors would be wise to turn their focus to Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE: PLAN, Rated “D”), an emerging player in the digital transformation ecosystem.
On Wednesday, the company reported blowout...
By Jon D. Markman On September 2, 202012:47 PM Eastern
In the future, video games will have stunning, photorealistic 8K graphics, so NVIDIA Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA, Rated “B-”), the maker of best in class graphics processors, is getting ready for that...
By Jon D. Markman On August 31, 202001:56 PM Eastern
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT, Rated “B”) is working with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) on a bid to buyout TikTok, the smartphone app famous for silly lip-singing and dance videos created...
By Jon D. Markman On August 28, 202011:50 AM Eastern
Cable TV was bleeding subscribers before the pandemic. Now, their pain is only increasing. Wireless carriers are making sure of that as they begin to recreate content bundles around streaming...
By Jon D. Markman On August 26, 202002:59 PM Eastern
SpaceX completed another successful mission last week, launching 59 Starlink satellites, then safely landing its Falcon 9 solid rocket booster on a drone ship. Ho-hum.
These missions are so...
By Jon D. Markman On August 24, 202001:35 PM Eastern
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL, Rated “B”) continues to load up on augmented reality software businesses.
According to a report from Calcalist on Friday, Apple managers secretly purchased Camerai, an...
By Jon D. Markman On August 21, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL, Rated “B”) and the company behind the popular online video game “Fortnite” are in the middle of an epic public relations battle about platforms and monopoly power.
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By Jon D. Markman On August 19, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Federal prosecutors are rushing to bring an antitrust case against Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, Rated “B-”), the parent company of Google. Oddly, the haste may be good news for the search...
By Jon D. Markman On August 17, 202002:00 PM Eastern
The digital transformation is the biggest, most investable tech trend in a generation. Don’t take my word for it: The evidence is overflowing in this quarter’s earnings reports … and this trend...
By Jon D. Markman On August 14, 202001:00 PM Eastern
The digital and physical world collided Monday. For once, brick and mortar won out.
The headline story was a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN, Rated “B”) and Simon...
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.
