Catenae Innovation (CTEA) has announced a “first agreement for the provision of Trust in Media's Fanbase service to one of the UK's largest entertainment promoters representing some major names in the music industry” – helping the shares up to a current 0.15p to buy…

Previously writing on Safestyle UK (SFE), it was “pleased” with interim legal outcome… but clear challenges remain - this with interim court orders “preventing Safeglaze UK and certain named individuals from undertaking various actions, and an order requiring them to provide specified documents to Safestyle”, though I noting this all follows ANOTHER profit warning last month – which noted “intensified” new competitor (i.e. Safeglaze) activities, with also market and operational challenges. Now an announcement entitled “Discharge of Loan and Security”…

From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2017 and thus far in 2018 (by net short position %) - and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

Hello Share Bats. As the markets are closed, it’s allowable to discuss matters on the fringes of our great game. So let me bring you a mystery. It’s about what seems like a scam. But as I found nothing about it on Google, I hope you can enlighten me.

AIM-listed Rurelec (RUR) has released its audited FY17 numbers this morning. Once again we see losses (£5.8 million vs £9.3 million FY16) and the cash was down to just £163,000. We are told liquidity was a major issue for the Group in 2017 – you bet! We also see the auditor resigned – more on that below – and a previously unreported asset sale which leaves me rather puzzled. Finally, we are told there was no qualification of 2017 accounts which sounds great, but that was not quite all it seemed at first sight.

In today's bearcast I look at Mysquar (FRAUD), UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) and its latest spoof, Dignity (DTY) where I have grave concerns, Magnolia Petroleum (MAGP) and its dead cat bounce, Pantheon Resources (PANR) where it's placing ahoy and at Mirada (MIRA) where I fear the worst. Sorry Matt Earl. Brokerman Dan says that if we raise our target £20,000 for Woodlarks with our 30 mile charity walk on July 28 he will do the last mile in his underpants. We will have cameras on hand and splash it all over the internet. Thanks to all who have donated but 95% of bearcast listeners have yet to do so although we are already 23% of the way there. So please donate a tenner each today HERE

Market research and marketing group System1 (SYS1) has announced results from an admitted “disappointing” year ended 31st March 2018, but considers it now has “a more competitive and scalable offer, with the potential to build a much larger and more stable business over the years to come”…

Okay this is nothing to do with gender or being alive but who is the odd one out and why? The four folks below are Pop Queen Britney Spears, Darren Atwater's countryman Bryan Adams, the late Page three Bird Suzanne Mizzi and Julie "lingerie on expenses" Meyer. It is also nothing to do with dying ones hair. Answers in the comments section below by midnight tonight.

I noted in my last write-up on under pressure funeral operator Dignity (DTY) that in its last earnings conference call they wished they could be more precise about future prospects. Well all the coffins are in the air again today as the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced 'a review into the £2 billion funerals market to ensure that people are not getting a bad deal'. Ouch.

AIM-listed Turkish gold miner Ariana (AAU) yesterday announced a resource upgrade at its Kepez prospect, which forms part of the Red Rabbit joint venture which is producing gold from its Kiziltepe mine. 

Something a little different today from all those worthy growth at a reasonable price type companies I normally ramble on about. Whisper it quietly, but I think that FirstGroup (FGP) is cheap here. I know that a transport company is never the most popular name - and I await the opprobrium from the TransPennine Express train and related users in the comments section - but hear me out, after all, got to be greedy when others are fearful and all that.

Optibiotix (OPTI) has announced that a global dairy company with an annual turnover of more than $10 billion has signed a deal to evaluate its SweetBiotix calorie free sweet fibres.

Yesterday the Maltese FSA stripped Julie "lingerie on expenses" Meyer of five more licenses to operate funds in Malta citing grotesque regulatory failings including having no MLO. Julie might have countered that she had no need for a Money Laundering Officer as those funds appear to have had no cash in them. Of course the story Julie Meyer told investors was very different as a new Winnileaks email, below, shows.

Hello, Share Magnates. As I become ever more worried about the prospects of High Street chains, I need to express concerns about Dunelm (DNLM), the household goods purveyor. For one thing, it gave a warning on May 25 that trading conditions were worse than it had expected.

On the run from the Maltese Cops as she seeks to avoid facing criminal charges there is more bad news for Julie "lingerie on expenses" Meyer from the island paradise today. Our own FCA may be useless fucktards who fail to act against Julie as she tries to raise more cash from the innocent, but the Maltese FSA is actually fit for purpose. It has just announced:

I write from the Kouronis taverna in Kambos where, in the middle of a violent thunderstorm, worthy of Byron at Zitsa, it is sheeting it down. I recorded 90 minutes ago in what seemed like a sauna. All is explained in the podcast which covers Air Partner (AIR), Premaitha (NIPT), a fraud on the Mrs, Akers Biosciences (AKR) and Transense Technologies (TRT). Myself and Brokerman Dan have now raised more than £5,000, including gift aid, for our charity walk on July 28. But 96% of Bearcast listeners are yet to chip in, I am sure you can all spare a tenner so please donate NOW HERE. To those who have donated already, thank you.

AIM-listed Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) announced this morning that Bracknor, the death spiral funder, still had convertible loan notes to swap for shares. This, despite the RNS of 19 July 2017 telling us that the Company does not intend to use the Bracknor facility in the future. As part of these arrangements the Company will issue 7 million warrants to Bracknor. These warrants are exercisable at 25p and may be exercised at any time over the next five years. Anyone would have thought that was the end of the matter. Apparently not.

It seems to be the season for big share price rises off of the back of very little in the way of substance across quite a few companies at the lower end of AIM at the moment!

Many of you will be well aware of the hullabaloo surrounding cryptocurrencies, the promise of being made a millionaire, seemingly within weeks, if not overnight. I, like so many was curious about what crypto's and block-chains offered - But lets stay on point with crypto's. What better place to start with the premise of crypto's. The birth of crypto's is essentially down to techno-nerds wanting to circumvent the banking system, sound enough reason you may think; after all, why keep feeding the evil banksters with our hard earned cash.

Back from some half-term jaunts...and it is not the usual Thursday frenzy in the corporate earnings markets. I do note though results from my old mucker Johnson Matthey (JMAT) which I have loved-up in the past, describing it as a 'precious metal refiner and clever catalytic converter technology company'. I also - back in September last year - highlighted the 35 quid share price level as being full. Well that worked alright over the following few months but here we are again back close to that big level. So what do you do?