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 18, 201904:00 PM Eastern
Messaging on Android phones is stuck in a ’90s time warp. That is going to change, soon.
Alphabet (GOOGL) announced last week it’s finally replacing the short message service (SMS) texting on...
By Jon D. Markman On November 15, 201902:00 PM Eastern
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”
The famous juxtaposition from the opening lines of “A Tale of Two Cities” is fitting. On the same day Apple (AAPL) raced to a new high,...
By Jon D. Markman On November 13, 201902:04 PM Eastern
Disney (DIS) rolled out its highly anticipated streaming video-on-demand service Tuesday.
There were some issues …
Within hours of the Disney+ debut, the SVOD service was plagued with outages...
By Jon D. Markman On November 11, 201903:27 PM Eastern
The restaurant business is notoriously competitive. According to CNBC, about 60% of all new restaurants fail within their first year. Within five years, that number jumps up to 80%.
Now,...
By Jon D. Markman On November 8, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Researchers are one step closer to a spaceplane that could fly between New York and London in about one hour, more than twice as fast as the Concorde.
Previous advances in jet propulsion have...
By Jon D. Markman On November 6, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Space mining is a popular science fiction trope. Precious metals are abundant in space, though. At the same time, the most valuable commodity in the outer limits is actually abundant on Earth.
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By Jon D. Markman On November 4, 201902:00 PM Eastern
A journalist rode in a driverless vehicle last week. The tricked-out minivan navigated busy city streets, made an unprotected left-hand turn and even reached speeds of 45 mph.
There wasn’t a...
By Jon D. Markman On November 1, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The last of the big tech companies just reported earnings. And the biggest surprise was … there were no surprises.
Facebook (FB) had another blowout quarter. Mark Zuckerberg’s social media...
By Jon D. Markman On October 30, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Investors really want to believe Intel is finally putting its failures in the rearview mirror.
The Santa Clara, Calif., company reported better-than-expected financial results Oct. 24. Shares of...
By Jon D. Markman On October 28, 201902:00 PM Eastern
American technology companies have become pawns in the U.S.-China trade war. The great ones are adapting in remarkable ways.
Nvidia (NVDA) managers at Mobile World Congress last week in Los...
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.
