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.

Articles

For decades, computer programmers have been trying to beat multiplayer games by finding reliable patterns in data. Researchers at Facebook (FB) and Carnegie Mellon University published a...
If you really want to understand where a technology company it is going, listen to the chief technology officer. Thuan Pham, CTO for Uber (UBER), was speaking Tuesday at the RISE technology...
The streaming media and live TV worlds are colliding. This is the key takeaway from ComScore’s State of OTT — that’s “over the top” — June 2019 presentation. This media analytics company set...
Despite technological advances, most of medicine is still stubbornly one-size-fits-all. But last week, we got one step closer to personalized treatments. The Cleveland Clinic passed a big...
Weather prediction is getting much better. Now, innovative companies are spinning that increased capability into lucrative new business models. ClimaCell, featured in a July 24 Forbes story,...
Big caps advanced modestly with a tentative hitch in their step this week, while small caps knocked the ball out of the park. Topping the new high list for big caps during the final week of June...
“Zero inventory” has been mostly unobtainable for manufacturers. But cutting-edge 3D printing technology is giving managers renewed hope. Carbon announced Tuesday it raised $260 million in...
The gig economy is transforming the way people work, travel and buy products. Some of the companies behind these trends are household names. Shopify (SHOP) is not one of those, but the tiny...
Stocks shot to new record highs over the past week. Record highs are scary to some people, as those smack of complacency and overconfidence. But new highs are the most bullish things that can...
Facebook introduced a new cryptocurrency, Libra, that’s set to launch early next year. It will be backed by fiat currency and managed independently of FB. You can read the whitepaper here. ...

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.

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