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 1, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Cloud computing is so yesterday.
Forget blowout growth at Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL) and even IBM (IBM). The future of computing looks like the past, sort of.
Forrester...
By Jon D. Markman On October 30, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) makes earth-moving machines. And last Tuesday, its blowout third-quarter earnings report propelled the stock to a record high.
This helped the Dow Industrials make a...
By Jon D. Markman On October 27, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Thirteen weeks into her pregnancy, Lexi Royer discovered the baby growing inside her had a serious birth defect. Then something amazing happened …
Two days into the 25th week of her term,...
By Jon D. Markman On October 25, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A California internet company wants to build the future of cities. And it will start with 12 acres of brownfield in Canada.
Sidewalk Labs, the “smart city” division of Alphabet (GOOGL), and...
By Jon D. Markman On October 23, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987 — 30 years ago last Thursday. It was a 22% catastrophe immediately known as Black Monday.
This first crash of the modern...
By Jon D. Markman On October 20, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Brace yourself. Artificial intelligence has reached another milestone.
That’s because Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind, says its newest neural networks no longer require human input.
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By Jon D. Markman On October 18, 201702:00 PM Eastern
China’s rise as an economic power has been relentless. State leaders have pulled every lever to maintain at least high single-digit growth.
Now, the emerging superpower has secured a...
By Jon D. Markman On October 16, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Netflix (NFLX) is a perfect business. BUT, you absolutely should not buy its stock.
And I want to tell you why. But first, you need some background.
This month, Netflix (NFLX) did the...
By Jon D. Markman On October 13, 201702:00 PM Eastern
How cool would it be to take photos or videos just by blinking your eye?
Now imagine telescopic vision. Or, infrared night-vision.
It would be like having superpowers. And you could...
By Jon D. Markman On October 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A necessary evil. That’s how many Americans view air travel.
Very often, flying is the only way to cover long distances fast enough to do what you want to do. Like bask on a Yucatan beach for...
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.
