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 December 13, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Supercomputers and “big data” analytics are among the high-end tools that the best hedge fund managers depend upon today. No organization uses them better than the creative wizards at Renaissance...
By Jon D. Markman On December 6, 201607:30 AM Eastern
It’s the best performing stock in the S&P 500 this year and one of the best stocks my Tech Trend Trader members currently own. Yet, the scale of what Nvidia (NVDA) is doing may still be...
By Jon D. Markman On November 29, 201607:30 AM Eastern
The $300 billion Chinese trucking market is filled with long hauls and chaos. The government and technology firms are betting that self-driving 18-wheelers are the solution.
Earlier this month...
By Jon D. Markman On November 22, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Billionaires and technology behemoths see something in e-sports. Now Facebook (FB) is taking a harder look, too.
The Information recently reported that the social media giant has been in talks...
By Jon D. Markman On November 15, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Microsoft (MSFT) suddenly is about more than spreadsheets and stale PowerPoint presentations. It’s about making innovative products that drive narratives about the future of computing.
The...
By Jon D. Markman On November 8, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Google wants to change the way we interact with technology. The fact that tech journalists and Wall Street analysts love its new smartphone doesn’t hurt either, by the way.
The new Pixel...
By Jon D. Markman On November 1, 201607:30 AM Eastern
With self-driving cars, the giant global auto industry is careening toward unprecedented disruption as its 100-year-old business model is turned completely inside out.
That is the big takeaway...
By Jon D. Markman On October 25, 201607:30 AM Eastern
With the U.S. presidential election entering the home stretch, hyperbole about the decrepit state of American manufacturing has reached a fever pitch.
With deserted, dilapidated factories as...
By Jon D. Markman On October 18, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Samsung phones may be exploding now, but in the future they will have cutting-edge artificial intelligence and an ecosystem built around natural conversation that will transcend apps.
The South...
By Jon D. Markman On October 11, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Two of the most important developments of our time will come from advancements in artificial intelligence and autonomous cars. We may look back at the mid-2010s much like we look back on 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.
