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 April 17, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Last week, Apple (AAPL) and Google announced a legitimate plan to get the American economy back to work.
The companies will use their smartphone market share to perform large-scale contact...
By Jon D. Markman On April 15, 202004:30 PM Eastern
The unthinkable is happening: Ad sales at Facebook and Google are falling. Analysts predict annual revenues at both firms will decline for the first time ever.
That’s the focus of this New York...
By Jon D. Markman On April 13, 202001:17 PM Eastern
Global commerce was in transition before the pandemic. Now, businesses are accelerating their digital aspirations and work will never be the same.
That claim can definitively be backed up by the...
By Jon D. Markman On April 10, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Two months ago, tech companies were universally loved. It made sense: They all looked the same. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the overall sector took a beating.
Despite the market crash,...
By Jon D. Markman On April 8, 202001:00 PM Eastern
The economy is closed. Tens of millions of Americans are living under voluntary house arrest. And that is the easy part. The hard part will be getting back to normal. That will require real...
By Jon D. Markman On April 6, 202001:00 PM Eastern
The COVID-19 crisis is pushing supply chains and logistics networks to their limits. Something has to give soon.
On Friday, Amazon.com (AMZN) signed an agreement with the Canadian government to...
By Jon D. Markman On April 3, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Put your hand up if you knew Microsoft (MSFT) was going to be a huge winner in the pandemic.
I knew that it would do well, but I didn’t think others would do so poorly.
The Redmond, Wash....
By Jon D. Markman On April 1, 202002:41 PM Eastern
These are desperate times. A global pandemic is unmooring economies and ravaging healthcare systems. Calls for desperate measures are rising.
On Tuesday, the White House coronavirus task force...
By Jon D. Markman On March 30, 202001:28 PM Eastern
A tiny San Francisco startup called Kinsa Inc. is using mapping software and one million connected thermometers to help researchers reliably determine where and when COVID-19 hotspots will...
By Jon D. Markman On March 27, 202001:00 PM Eastern
For a long time, I thought Cardlytics (CDLX) managers could do no wrong. They put the company at the epicenter of financial technology.
But I didn’t see a global health pandemic coming. No one...
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.
