UK 22:24 Sunday, 20 September 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
It is back to Optibiotix (OPTI) and Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX)
The most read non-Tom article this week is The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As $4,400 Gives Way For Gold by Nigel Somerville at number 19, or number 26 with Bearcasts.
Gold closed the week at $4,377 – up from last week’s $4,348 despite the Fed hiking interest rates by 0.25%. Gold stocks also rose – rather more firmly than the yellow metal – as can be seen on the chart below (courtesy, as ever, of ADVFN) of Gold against its mining ETFs GDX, GDXJ and GOEX. So what to make of that?
It’s the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz. There are no prizes! And no Googling!
Sunday is a good time to sit back, read, and forget about shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don't you?
Global investors announced roughly $538 billion in cross-border greenfield investments in the first half of 2026, with AI infrastructure emerging as a major driver of where that capital is flowing. This visualisation ranks the top 10 sectors for global foreign direct investment (FDI) from January to June 2026, using data from fDi Intelligence.
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 two stories of despair then to one of hope with the news out of Greenland and what it means for Amaroq (AMRQ).
Online retail group Boohoo (DEBS) has announced a trading update and board changes emphasising “our turnaround continues at pace”. How does the ‘turnaround’ compare to the valuation at a current 24.7p share price?
Following Tom Winnifrith launching the Great British Takeover stakes prize competition, I noted I would monitor the performance of the leading picks, 'The Takeover 12', until we have a contest winner. After it was initially ‘so far, so bad’, The Takeover 12 remain down after over a month but by slightly less than previously and despite also the FTSE 100 and FTSE All-Share benchmarks slightly worsening since then. The full detail follows...
I despair of the younger generation as I discuss the welcome to Wales row. I then look at 2 9/11 PR blunders before considering businesses that are doomed to fail with shareholders losing everything including Mothercare (MTC), Hamak (HMV) and Bluebird Mining (BMV)
In May TekCapital (TEK) was gifted 51% of Vesari for $0 but within 5 weeks had published an “independent” , i.e. paid for report saying that a company with no assets, cash or patented IP was worth $293 million. I agree with Liverpool’s greatest numbers man since Ken Dodd that this is just nonsense on stilts. Evil Banksta opines:
On 24 August 2026 as Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) appointed a new interim CFO to replace the hapless Emily Bertram it stated “The Company is in advanced discussions with potential NED candidates and looks forward to updating the market in due course, and is also intending to issue a business update by mid-September which will include further Board updates.”
It can blame Donald Trump as much as it wants but the final demise of Mothercare (MTC) has always been inevitable as I have explained numerous times here. To recap.
Yesterday, Nuburu (US:BURU) filed a form 8K which was issued to fess up that due to a material accounting error in its financial statements for the six months ended 30 June 2026, those accounts could no longer be relied upon and the accounts for the three and six months then ended will need to be restated.
