UK 21:42 Monday, 21 September 2026
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The New World Oil & Gas (NEW) forward selling fiasco took yet another bizarre twist this morning, as the company announced that Alliance Trust Savings had taken a 13.25% stake. There was widespread speculation that this announcement was a cunning ploy from market abuser Chris Oil, as this involves his broker, but I didn’t believe that for one second. Chris Oil has proven beyond all doubt that he doesn’t have the gumption for cunning ploys, so this transaction looked like something different. The question was what?
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Gary Newman
Surely you don’t mean that BMD’s tweet about this could have been an attempt at drumming up a bit of interest amongst potential buyers and letting people read far more into it than there really was (he comes across as quite clever in that respect hinting at a lot without actually saying much and leaving himself open to questions!)…