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MMAG
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A challenge for David Stredder and Mello Events - musicMagpie

So, David: do you want the audience to learn anything, or are you a mere PR man for low-grade corporates?  Tonight, musicMagpie (MMAG) is presenting at Mello Events, and you can bet that it will not discuss how, shockingly, it deceived investors about real competition in its IPO prospectus; or how its CFO-turned-COO was a serious fraudster.

Bearcast
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TomWinnifrith Bearcast: My SIPP buys more Optibiotix, Bluebird vs Kefi, & much more

This is a very long podcast, covering: Optibiotix (OPTI); Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX); Kefi (KEFI); Bluebird (BMV); Ten Lifestyle (TENG); CakeBox (CBOX); Deepverge (DVRG); Petropavlovsk (POG); Eurasia (EUA); and Amur Minerals (AMC).

Dead-Donkey
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BREAKING: Recycling Technologies IPO pulled AGAIN – has Nomad Stifel quit?

Oh dear, oh, dear. To have your IPO pulled once is understandable, but twice seems like carelessness. Perhaps Nomad Stifel might care to scotch certain rumours doing the rounds.

RTC

RTC Group – 2021 results, why the further share price fall?...

Previously writing on recruitment group RTC (RTC), in August with the shares at 54p I reviewed argues “outstanding further contract award”. How ‘outstanding’?, concluding that there were clear reasons for caution. The shares last closed at 35p… and are currently down below 30p on the back of a full-year results announcement. So what’s the situation now?…

NWG
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Monday morning panic (or not) from selling institutional investors and government shareholders

I was amused to see that “Scottish Widows pulls million investors out of tobacco” as I noted yesterday that “I’ve never smoked, but I do still believe that shares in Imperial Brands (IMB) are cheap”. It is fine not to buy a particular sector but where do you stop? After all you can also not buy alcohol, military and commodity shares (and more) on a similar rationale. From my perspective, I am happy to see both Imperial Brands and British American Tobacco (BATS) shares up this morning as I write. Meanwhile I also observe that NatWest Group (NWG) shares are up today despite the government announcing a further share sale…

Newsboy

Watch out, Gavin Burnell of Globo and Novum infamy - you have a violent doppelganger in your home town!

Poor old Gavin. As if life wasn’t hard enough already for the old scallywag, several people have been in touch to suggest that the violent train hoodlum, flagged up on Twitter below, is, in fact, the colourful financier. Of course, though the hoodlum appears to live in the same town as Burnell, it cannot be him, since Gavin is both an honourable and respected member of the financial community. And thus I must warn him that he has a doppelganger who, like him, lives in Woking, and who, unlike Burnell, seems not quite the true scholar and gentleman.  

BLU
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Blue Star – another grossly overvalued player in the Bixby, Edwards, Frangos, Wall related party nest of snakes, facing cash crisis

Reader A alerts me to another player in the nest of related Andy Frangos party snakes: AIM-listed Blue Star Capital (BLU), a grossly overvalued investment company with a curious definition of profit, no cash at all and a barking-mad valuation. What’s not to like?

SYME
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Supply@ME Capital- for whom the death spiral bell tolls, the race to 0p is hotting up

Maths test – complete the sequence: 0.204, 0.135, 0.12, 0.11407, 0.10, 0.056, x – what is x for Supply (SYME)?

LOK

House Movers Forced into Self Storage is a Great Driver for this Fast-Growing Venture

Hello Share Shakers. This old punter hopes to move out of Stacey Towers soon in favour of a new gaff with better transport connections. The experience is not proving pleasant. Though we’ve sold our present home, we can’t find anywhere else suitable to live in. My estate agent tells me he has 10 similar cases, where a home has been sold but the owners can’t move for the same reason.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Fraud is a sign of the times

I start with an apology for yesterday’s downtime, explaining what happened. Then I look at the musicMagpie (MMAG) saga, and why what I have discovered is so utterly damning. I also discuss today’s expose on paid social media influencers HERE. Regarding that, HERE is where the SEC did what the FCA should be doing, but I fear will not unless we enter a prolonged bear market where many lose cash.

EUA

Here is an anniversary cake for Eurasia Mining

With thanks to a generous Banksta, here’s a Eurasia Mining (EUA) birthday cake for tomorrow.  This is to celebrate the fifth month anniversary of the farce that is Eurasia claiming that its sale process is still ongoing even though due diligence was supposedly completed on 28th October last year and that a British company selling assets in Russia, almost certainly to Russians, is going to be able to transact in the current climate.

IMB
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Friday news I missed last week from Rolls-Royce and Imperial Brands

I was a bit busy on Friday and missed two things.  The first was that Rolls-Royce (RR.) shares pushed up nicely, which is good news given I am a fan of the stock (as last noted here, in February).  I was pleased to read that “the owner of Air India is looking to snap up around 30 Airbus aircraft, which are powered by engines built by the UK’s leading engineering group”.  That was nice, but the real reason for the rise in shares was a few bid rumours based on the fact that, as the Mail on Sunday puts it, “arch-rival BAE Systems (BA.) could be a contender”.  All good fun…but don’t ever bet on bids alone.  Meanwhile, I want to talk about Imperial Brands (IMB)…

Crime-Scene
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Letter to FCA & AIM Regulation re social media promoters paid in shares, ramping, pumping & dumping

I have, today, written to both the FCA and the oxymorons at AIM Regulation, on, what seems to me, sure-fire market abuse. The original letter names two AIM Companies and one “social media influencer” (I have redacted the names below). But I understand that the problem is not confined to these two companies and one “social media influencer”, and I am urging the authorities to work together on tackling what seems a growing issue.

Quiz
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The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #134

Grab a cup of tea, sit back, and test your knowledge against the other ShareProphets members. Write your score in the comments, there are no prizes, and most important of all – no Googling!

Gold
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The View From The Montana Log Cabin As Gold Moves Higher Again - $4000 by 2024?

Jordan Roy-Byre of TheDailyGold.com  is getting very excited about the prospects for Gold and Gold stocks, saying this week that now could be the last chance to buy cheap and that he thinks that we are in a bullish consolidation ahead of a major break higher in the next 2-5 months. Given that he is perhaps the most bearish Gold-bull around, it is a big call.

Professor
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Sunday Long Reads: Learning Crypto, Fake News Network, Mariupol, Ukraine is Winning (fake news), Afghanistan's Last Finance Minister

Here are five long reads that have nothing to do with shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don’t you? 
 

Bear
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Five Slam-Dunk Sells For 2022 – March Update

It seems my slam-dunk sells for 2022 – AIM-listed Tern plc (TERN), Catenae Innovation (CTEA), Trafalgar Property (TRAF) and URU Metals (URU) along with sub-Standard listed AIQ (AIQ) is set for a very interesting few days ahead which could see disaster strike for at least two of these companies.

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Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending 26 March 2022

These are the most-read articles and most listened-to Bearcasts of the week. The most read non-Tom story is Centamin – 2021 FY Numbers And Dividend: Is It Now A Sell? by Nigel Somerville at Number two or Number four if you include Bearcasts.

TERN
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Tick-tock, tick-tock As The Tern Timebomb Counts Down Towards Zero

AIM-listed jam tomorrow IoT investment company Tern plc (TERN) badly needs to get a fundraise away as the closing date for cashing in its first round of warrants at Wyld, listed on the Nasdaq First North joke market in Stockholm approaches. I reckon it has got at best a couple of weeks and probably only one week before disaster strikes. The only question for me is whether the disaster will be the collapse of Wyld or just a massively discounted bucket shop placing-induced collapse in Tern’s share price.

ENQ
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The market reacted negatively to the EnQuest full year results but I can see long term potential - buy

EnQuest (ENQ) has just released its results for 2021 and the market didn’t seem to like them, judging by the reaction of the share price, which I find surprising as I think they actually made pretty good reading.

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