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 June 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
After Amazon’s (AMZN) announcement that it was buying Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFM) for $13.7 billion in cash, shares of both companies went up. (Enough in Amazon’s case to essentially make the...
By Jon D. Markman On June 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Oil prices have crashed from $52 to $42 in the last month. And China’s the culprit, say Wall Street analysts.
China is an easy mark: Ghost cities, capital flight, shadow banking, rising dissent...
By Jon D. Markman On June 23, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Within a decade, people in need of a new liver, heart or kidney will get a new one practically on demand. These brand-new organs will be regenerated from their very own cells.
That’s...
By Jon D. Markman On June 21, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Mining giant Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) is willing to go to hell and back for copper.
Its new mine near Superior, Arizona, bores nearly 7,000 feet below the Earth’s surface. There, temperatures...
By Jon D. Markman On June 19, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Amazon (AMZN) is spending $14 billion to put Whole Foods Markets (WFM) in its shopping cart — a surprising move that analysts so far have completely misunderstood.
Analysts claim the online...
By Jon D. Markman On June 16, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A quiet war is underway. And the future of the internet as we know it is at stake.
Most internet content is financed by interruptive advertising. And people hate it.
Apple (AAPL) and Google...
By Jon D. Markman On June 14, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil.
This is the promise of CRISPR/Cas 9, a game-changing gene-editing tool.
Bioengineered food could end...
By Jon D. Markman On June 12, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Leading tech stocks suffered a huge downside reversal Friday. Bears are thrilled. Many feel vindicated.
Despite Friday’s drubbing, which spilled over into Monday’s trading session, tech is still...
By Jon D. Markman On June 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It looks like a giant vacuum cleaner and it’s set to disrupt the fruit-harvesting business.
Like most startups, Abundant Robotics saw a problem it thought could be solved with technology.
So...
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Imagine the ability to look at something and know almost everything about it. It would kind of be like a superpower.
Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) have tools to do it – right now. They...
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.
