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 October 2, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Widespread commercial drone delivery got one step closer to reality.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that United Parcel Service (UPS) got the go-ahead from the Federal Aviation...
By Jon D. Markman On September 30, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Artificial intelligence is becoming the future of everything. Yet, only a few large companies have the talent and the technology to perfect it.
That’s the gist of New York Times story published...
By Jon D. Markman On September 27, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Spot is getting ready to run with the big dogs.
Spot is Boston Dynamics’ first major robot to be released into the wild, according to a Tuesday report by the Verge. Engineers at the robotics...
By Jon D. Markman On September 23, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The entertainment world is at an inflection point. New business models are killing convention, even in the most unlikely places.
In the TV streaming market, names like Netflix, Hulu, Apple and...
By Jon D. Markman On September 20, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Stocks churned like butter at a county fair during the last several trading sessions. There’s been enough kinetic energy to get the market to the top of its 18-month range, but not enough to send...
By Jon D. Markman On September 18, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Smartphones are great, but they are not the future of communication. Big technology companies know this.
That’s why, with the help of the company that makes Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglasses,...
By Jon D. Markman On September 16, 201905:15 PM Eastern
Fifth-generation wireless is going to change American business in ways most people can’t imagine. And the groundwork is being laid right now.
At an investor conference last week, Ronan Dunne,...
By Jon D. Markman On September 11, 201902:00 PM Eastern
For better or worse, Apple (AAPL) is becoming a legitimate services company.
On Tuesday, execs revealed a trio of new iPhones for the second year running. But it was the aggressive pricing for...
By Jon D. Markman On September 9, 201902:00 PM Eastern
By all accounts, regulators are coming after Alphabet (GOOGL) with all guns blazing.
The Washington Post confirmed Friday the company received a civil investigative demand from the Department of...
By Jon D. Markman On September 4, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The world is on the cusp of a massive $12.3 trillion 5G explosion.
Former Verizon CEO, Lowell McAdam, says 5G “will usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution for this country.”
Some of the...
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.
