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 August 12, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Google has a plan to use the sensors in Android phones for a worldwide earthquake detection network, and it’s legitimately the best smartphone news is in a long time.
The search giant announced...
By Jon D. Markman On August 10, 202012:54 PM Eastern
Bill Gates says most COVID-19 tests are complete garbage, but he’s optimistic about vaccines and treatments that should end the threat in United States by the end of 2021.
That’s the key...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 202001:00 PM Eastern
As earnings season progresses, investors and analysts are starting to get a true sense of COVID-19 damage.
Despite this turbulence, there are always some great buys in the market.
One of those...
By Jon D. Markman On August 5, 202003:00 PM Eastern
Buried in the fine print of its earnings release last week was a revelation that might blow you away.
It turns out that Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN, Rated “B”) now spends more on ads than any other...
By Jon D. Markman On August 3, 202001:13 PM Eastern
Pro-growth policies are nice, but corporate managers mostly want politicians to stay out of the way.
On Saturday, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) and ByteDance, the Chinese parent of...
By Jon D. Markman On July 31, 202012:13 PM Eastern
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN, Rated “C+”) has invested $270 billion in the United States and employs nearly 1 million Americans.
And still the company is under attack in Washington?
What’s...
By Jon D. Markman On July 29, 202002:30 PM Eastern
“We’re from Washington, and we are here to help.”
A throwaway line from a bygone political era … but it still rings true and is still just as dangerous.
The New York Times reported Tuesday...
By Jon D. Markman On July 27, 202012:58 PM Eastern
In the 1990s, Wintel, the partnership between Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) Windows and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC, Rated “B”) that created the x86 chips, was unstoppable.
The two tech giants...
By Jon D. Markman On July 24, 202002:00 PM Eastern
After reporting its quarterly earnings earlier this week, it should be clear for all to see that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) was a huge winner in the pandemic.
Numbers for Q2 were...
By Jon D. Markman On July 22, 202001:02 PM Eastern
There is a rubric for becoming rich. It’s tried and true, yet most small investors ignore the basic principles.
Michael Dell has created billions for investors and himself. Now, he’s at it...
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.
