UK 09:26 Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
After the success of this year’s biggest and best ever Sharestock, The Mrs. is hard at work making plans for Sharestock 2027 on September 4. We start with the news this morning that Lucian Miers has agreed to trek over from Yorkshire to join us next year. Yesterday Jim Mellon agreed that he will again abandon his 10 dogs for the day and fly over from the Isle of Man to headline the show. And there are more inked in speakers and thus 51 weeks ahead of the event it is already 15% sold out!
I start with base rates, oil and gold. Then it is Ariana (AAU), First Development (FDC) another Fatty Cornish advised abomination, Blencowe (BRES) and a shareholder base of congenital idiots and Pantheon (PANR), an utterly compelling short.
‘Sustainable building products, systems and solutions group’ Alumasc (ALU) has announced results for its year ended 30th June 2026 and “a positive start to FY27, with group revenue in the first two months up 5% year-on-year”. So what about a share price more than 3% lower in response at 230p?
I realise that it is a crowded field in the race to be the thickest Labour MP out there but I have a new contender, Dr Jeevun Sander who comments in the fact that average wages in the last quarter ( to June 30) rose by 3,.5%, ahead of inflation at 2.8%. The good Dr went onto X to say:
An “AGM Statement” from BRCK Group (BRCK) includes that it “benefits from a diversified business model. Trading at our Design & Install division, which focuses on specialist work including cladding remediation, has started the new financial year well and we take continued encouragement from the improvement in the pace of BSR approval decisions. The board’s expectations for the current financial year remain unchanged”. What then of a current 47.25p share price comparing to above 56p earlier this year?
Before anyone starts griping I voted Reform UK in the last Senedd elections and was delighted that Nigel Farage’s party won most votes here in Wrexham beating the IRA/Sinn Fein loving cottage burners of Plaid handsomely. So, I comment not as someone who wishes Farage ill fortune but just as someone who hates sleaze and, sadly, the Reform UK leader just keeps wading into it.
Well life is never dull over at Paul Mathieson’s Amazing AI, now known as xxxx Holdings Limited. You will recall that on June 6 Mathieson applied to have xxxx ( delisted since January 7) struck off at Companies House in a voluntary dissolution.
Oh dear, oh dear, more red faces at Guild Advisory, the firm that signs off on the jackanory press releases of AQSE bezzle Valereum (VLRM). This time it is the proposed dual listing on AQSE of South African listed African Bitcoin in Treasury play Africa Bitcoin Corporation. Here is the timeline of shame.
‘Packaging and automation solutions group’ Mpac (MPAC) has announced results for the first half of the 2026 calendar year including that “the outlook for the full year remains unchanged following the company’s update in June”. So what about a currently more than 5% lower share price response to 330p?
I had a long conversation last night. There were all the problems you associate with poor telecoms in a country with a crumbling infrastructure. But despite the problems I face being in Wales I managed to have a good chat with the Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) boss who is out in Ethiopia.
Yesterday, Blencowe Resources (BRES) allowed its CEO Mike Ralston to resign but to stay on as a consultant on a similar financial screw as it emerged that he had dumped millions of shares, more than two thirds of his holding in 15 undeclared trades over the past year. One trade was almost certainly insider dealing. I have written to my contact at the FCA.
On Friday 4th September I received a laughably bad cease and desist letter from the firm of Quisumburg Torres, a Manilla based member of Baker McKenzie International which stated that if Paul Mathieson’s £10 billion claim went to the UK courts BM would be acting.
Recently the company describing itself as “the UK’s leading floor coverings distributor” Headlam Group announced it had resolved to file a notice of intention to appoint administrators stating “the scale of the losses incurred, and projected in the short term, has made the challenge too great to overcome… against a market backdrop that continues to be challenging”. However, what about another listed-company describing itself as a “fast growing and most progressive flooring distributor in the UK”?
‘Specialists in pre-clinical antibody discovery, engineering and supply for both therapeutic drug and diagnostic applications’, Fusion Antibodies (FAB) has announced results for its year ended 31st March 2026 including “another year of important progress for the company. We had revenue growth, a significant improvement in gross margin and a stronger cash position… Scientifically, we have continued to make excellent progress”. However, why has it not announced the results until now? – and I note I previously wrote on the company in May; ‘Japan patent grant, “excellent news” or rather attempted ramptastic?’.
I start with Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), and then move on via Union Jack Oil (UJO) to the insider dealing total scandal at Blencowe Resources (BRES).
