In some ways I feel a little sorry for Mark Dampier, as he sets sail into retirement from fully-listed Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.), his copy book indelibly blotted by exceptionally poor calls over Neil Woodford and, as Tom noted today, value crushing Tom Dobell of M&G. But it is not just Neil Woodford where I would have issues with HL’s recommendations, and that brings me to Gold.

Galileo Resources (GLR) “is, further to its announcement on 12 August 2020, pleased to announce that it has commenced a Helicopter-borne Electromagnetic Survey over two of its’ highly prospective tenures within its 100% held Kalahari Copper Belt Project in western Botswana”…

Our own Nigel Somerville has suggested that this is indeed the case. Author and analyst Robert Kientz also thinks so and explains why.

To be fair to Tom Dobell, his first ten years running the M&G Recovery Fund were pretty spectacular. That was partly because the market tanked as he arrived and then bounced back. Corks, waves etc but still his record was impressive. Today that all seems a long time ago with news that he is being resigned at Christmas.

700,000 folks have lost their jobs since the start of lockdown. And as furlough unwinds and as Boris plunges us, for no reason, into another lockdown there will be many more having to sign on. Among those folks who have kept their jobs many have seen pay ciuts. Just two sectors have seen pay rises: the public sector including the BBC (natch, as they are all frigging heroes) and banking and finance. Showing an honourable candour, Andrew Monk the boss of VSA Capital admits as much.

From the FCA’s spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2019 and thus far in 2020 (by net short position %, those in bold not on the list at the start of 2020) – and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week…

Hello Share Trippers. House prices in my neck of the woods have doubled in the last year. I do live in an odd location, though. It’s a seaside town and apparently loads of top earners are selling their gaffs in the Smoke having discovered that they can work from anywhere. What does this mean for house prices generally and share prices which are linked to them?

Last week I wrote on TT Electronics (TTG) “Ground-breaking COVID-19 screening device launched” announcement, more Corona madness? as the shares soared above 260p. Now the company announces that “it has agreed to acquire Torotel… is expected to be part-funded by a separately announced equity placing”…

Well actually I start with the curtain twitchers on the facebook page of the small village where I live in Wales. Boy have they excelled themselves today. What a crazy world we live in. Then it is on to Iconic (ICON) where today’s news should see the board in jail. Then Supply@ME Capital (SYME), a good section on Verditek (VDTK), and finally a detailed appraisal of Caspian Sunrise (CASP) after its interims. On reflection, I lied to you. This is not a podcast about three stocks worth zero. It is about four stocks worth zero.

Previously writing on “audio-visual systems integrator” to organisations, MediaZest (MDZ), as the shares rose to 0.07p I again noted the financials and suggested to beware of the recent share price movement. Now results for the 12 months ended 31st March 2020 – and the shares currently down to 0.04p…

Ouch! I do hope that the morons who have piled into worthless, cash-guzzling, POS Iconic (ICON) in recent days had lubed up properly for this morning for they were shafted completely. The shares have slumped by 47% to 0.01325p having also dumped yesterday. Now we know why and it is horrific.

Yesterday I noted how shitty little Aquis Listed Block Commodities had been fined £10,000 for lying to investors. In a way I celebrated as this was down to my work. But in a way not: I was cross.

Jubilee Metals (JLP) “is pleased… the company has received notification from the Minister of Mines and Mineral Development in Zambia of the approval of the company’s application for the renewal of Small Scale Mining Licence 7081-HQ-SML in Kabwe… and… appointment of Nicholas (Nick) Taylor as non-executive director”…

In between snoozes with my feet up on the balcony at the Montana log-cabin, I commented yesterday that things were looking up even though a correction in gold and gold stocks is playing out. The numbers contain some surprises even for me….

Well good luck to Kenton Jarvis who will be joining easyJet (EZJ) at some point in the next few months as its new CFO.  The budget airline may have raised money recently to strengthen their balance sheet, but you do not need to be an investing geek to know life is just a bit uncertain for any operator in this sector.  I talked about this with Tom W yesterday in a video that will go live later today. And certainly my conclusion is that whilst easyJet is a company with a strong offering and a real link with consumer demand/preferences, it can only buck the cycle for so long.  But…

Yesterday another adviser to AIM-listed jam tomorrow investment company Tern (TERN) has departed the building. We have already this year learnt that Tern’s Auditor slipped out of the back door under cover of night, and it is not so long ago that Allenby took on the role of Nomad, leaving one wondering if the former incumbents jumped or were pushed, shortly after Redleaf had vacated the PR role. Now Broker Whitman Howard has jumped ship. Should shareholders be concerned?

Hello Share Peekers. It still pays to search out companies which are likely to do well out of the covid restrictions. When you can’t go out as easily or mix with other people, a solitary pastime you can do from home seems ideal. One such company which fits the bill is Keywords Studios (KWS). This is a company which develops games for X-boxes, Playstations and the like. You’ll have heard the stories that home gaming has, amazingly, taken over as the biggest money spinner over all kinds of entertainment media, including films…

The latest interview with Gold guru Jordan Roy-Byrne of TheDailyGold.com – ShareProphets favourite technical analyst – is out (HERE) and even he is bored. The gold price is range-bound, the silver price is range-bound and his preferred ETFs (from a study perspective) GDX (gold majors) and GDXJ (gold nearly majors) are range-bound. But there might be small signs of stirring at last.

Oh dear, Lyin’ Chris Cleverley, the cousin of Tory party bigwig James, is in a spot of bother having been slammed by the regulators of the junior exchange Aquis for misleading investors in his POS company Block Commodities, formerly African Potash. Better still, Aquis acted on a specific letter from my good self sent on 18 November 2019.

Ten Lifestyle Group (TENG) has updated including that it “expects to report Net Revenue that is slightly ahead of market expectations of £43.3m… Adjusted EBITDA profit is expected to be slightly ahead of market expectations of £4.5m”. However, already down from a start of 2020 134p, the shares are currently slightly further lower at 82p…