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 February 7, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Stop me if you have read this before: Microsoft (MSFT) reported another blowout quarter on the back of stronger than expected sales from its cloud computing businesses.
We’ve all heard that...
By Jon D. Markman On February 5, 202002:00 PM Eastern
It’s not easy to follow the smart money. Well-connected and informed investors are notoriously discrete. They don’t want us to know what they’re doing. Take Charles Koch, for example. The...
By Jon D. Markman On February 3, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Amazon.com (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) reported spectacular profits last week, boosted by continued growth in their public cloud businesses. Now IBM (IBM) wants to play more in the cloud, too.
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By Jon D. Markman On January 31, 202001:59 PM Eastern
Electric vehicles are going to catch on with consumers. It’s only a matter of time, according to the president of the nation’s biggest automaker.
General Motors (GM) announced Monday that the...
By Jon D. Markman On January 29, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Despite media opposition, facial recognition systems are gaining momentum worldwide.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service announced Friday that within a month, facial recognition software will...
By Jon D. Markman On January 27, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Alteryx (AYX) executives were in New York earlier this month to talk about big data and analytics. It went well.
CEO Dean Stoecker and CFO Kevin Rubin, told a compelling story to a receptive...
By Jon D. Markman On January 24, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Big tech is embracing privacy. That’s bad news for the competition, and it is going to get much worse.
And much of this push is thanks to Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook. He began a user privacy...
By Jon D. Markman On January 22, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Augmented reality for the masses has been promised before, but it’s nearer now than ever. And it is going to be huge.
Mojo Vision is not your average optical company. The Saratoga, Calif., firm...
By Jon D. Markman On January 17, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Cardlytics (CDLX) surged 25% Monday after the Atlanta company said its partnership with Wells Fargo is progressing ahead of expectations. For the record, that business is turning consumer spending...
By Jon D. Markman On January 15, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Visa (V) announced Monday that the company will acquire Plaid, a San Francisco financial technology startup, for $5.3 billion. The deal reaffirms the fintech landscape.
For Visa shareholders,...
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.
