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 May 22, 201902:00 PM Eastern
There is this idea that old businesses can be easily remade into digital upstarts, if managers throw enough money at the process.
But that’s not really true. Just look at General Motors (GM).
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By Jon D. Markman On May 20, 201902:00 PM Eastern
If you believe in historical precedents, the trade war with China should have ended last week.
The Commerce Department announced Wednesday it would require all U.S. companies doing business with...
By Jon D. Markman On May 17, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The extreme -2.5% setback to U.S. markets to kick off this week set off a ton of alarm bells among the sort of quantitative analysts who help us understand current events through the prism of past...
By Jon D. Markman On May 15, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The pitch is dead-simple. Earn up 4.00% annual yield on credit balances up to $3,000.
The twist: This deal isn’t coming from a big bank, or even a local credit union. It’s from wireless carrier...
By Jon D. Markman On May 13, 201902:40 PM Eastern
Uber (UBER) raised $8.1 billion last week, the biggest U.S. Initial Public Offering in five years. But it is only the headliner in a bunch of IPOs dropping this month. Others span the spectrum of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 10, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Stocks clanked again over the past week in a series of volatile sessions in which sentiment waxed and waned and fretted and cheered over the loop-de-loop path of U.S.-China trade talks.
Topping...
By Jon D. Markman On May 8, 201905:25 PM Eastern
Facebook is much maligned for its privacy foibles. But the company is planning its second act.
Surprise! Now the social media giant wants to be your wallet.
The company is exploring back-end...
By Jon D. Markman On May 6, 201910:00 AM Eastern
Editor’s note: Below is what Jon sent his Markman’s Strategic Options subscribers before the markets opened this morning. With the broad markets in the red, down about 1.5% apiece, we think all of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 1, 201904:45 PM Eastern
Alphabet (GOOGL) shareholders had a really bad day Tuesday.
Stock traders and analysts blame a shortfall in Alphabet’s first-quarter advertising revenues. But all this selling is...
By Jon D. Markman On April 29, 201902:00 PM Eastern
For more than a century, 3M (MMM) has helped companies build better products and work smarter. But lately, the Minnesota Post-it® maker has been showing its age.
Last week, the maker of...
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.
