It is my ninth wedding anniversary today and I am a lucky fellow indeed. Tonight a romantic meal at the local boozer with the Mrs. Having discussed this and answering my own quiz question I move onto contemporary art where i am glad to be getting out as claims of hs historic performance offer no guide to the future. Then I look at Revolution Beauty (REVB), Boohoo.com (BOO), Tomco (TOM), Cake Box (CBOX), Made.com (MADE), Asilimar (ASLR), Dev Clever (DEV) and Audioboom (BOOM).

Perhaps you are really smart with your investment choices and do your trades from the beach or a luxury yacht. By contrast, I am mostly sat in my study working and thinking. Still, it is less than ten years to go before I can access my pension fund and one stock choice that has helped out over the last week is Reckitt Benckiser (RKT), which I last loved-up a bit over six months ago HERE. So why has a CEO change been announced today?

Next time TUI (TUI) threatens to go bust the German Government will be in no position to bail it out given how many other large German companies will be on their uppers by this winter. So says Lucian Miers who is short of the stock in a material way.

A “Contract cancellation” announcement from Ethernity Networks (ENET), though the company states it “strongly rejects” the customers argument and considers it “unrelated to the Ethernity developments” as well as that “per customer interactions and discussions, the management remain of the view that the UEP2025 has the potential to generate additional revenues for the company”. So what of a current share price response down to 9.25p?

A week ago interims from drowning in red flags bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain (ARB) made it abundantly clear that it faced a near term cash crisis. Today another sign that it is readying itself for a bailout placing has emerged. But I foresee a problem.

Hello Share People. There’s a company called Futura Medical (FUM) that deals with that difficult problem for some men. In the past, Uncle Tom has worried about this outfit as a jolly investment as its treatment, on an earlier occasion, had not proven entirely positive in trials. But that was some time ago and now comes much more successful news.

In today's bearcast I look in detail at Cake Box (CBOX), nanosynth (NNN) and Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX). 

Trade distributor of timber, panels and decorative surfaces, James Latham plc (LTHM) has issued an AGM statement including “revenue for the first four months of the current financial year, namely 1 April to 31 July 2022 is £142m. This represents an increase in sales per working day of 15% compared with the same period last year… cash balances remain strong and with our robust supply chains, this puts us in a good position to take advantage of the opportunities that exist in our market”. So why have the shares currently responded to 1130p, more than 7.5% lower?

Franco Manca and The Real Greek restaurants company Fulham Shore (FUL) has issued an update emphasising “trading is resilient and running in line with management expectations… our customers are attracted by our high quality ingredients and great prices”. So what’s the outlook in the context of a current 11.25p share price?

I suggested yesterday that musicMagpie (MMAG) was trading badly and that this means that an equity raise will, at some stage, be needed in order to stave off a visit from the Fat Lady. I pondered if that fund raise was already underway. Bang on cue an email drops to those who may or may not have signed up to being spammed by Magpie.

Former Neil Woodford favourite, fully listed Esken (ESKN), has offered up a trading statement this morning ahead of its interim results to today – which won’t appear until November. The statement offers some glimmer of hope, which saw the shares rise initially by as much as 7% before turning tail as the market read into the detail.

I have talked before that the most interesting aspect of the quarterly FTSE 100 changes is not which corporate names join London’s largest index…it is those that get booted out. The one of interest to me is not fund manager Abrdn (ABDN), which we used to all know as Aberdeen Asset Management before its comedy name change, but Howden Joinery Group (HWDN).

System1 Group (SYS1) has announced the appointment of Conrad Bona as a non-executive director, stating “his experience will further strengthen the board's skillset and will contribute to our future success”... though along with a “Review of strategic options”. So what’s going on?

AIM-listed Catenae Innovation (CTEA) was suspended five months ago for failing to offer up its accounts for year-ended September 2021. It now has just one month to post its audited numbers before the AIM Executioner calls and it is surely game over. But we haven’t heard from the company for two months: is there anybody there at Catenae Towers?

Lucian Miers may have become a big fan of Cake Box’s (CBOX) egg-free mega calorie cream cakes but it seems that others are taking a different view. You have been repeatedly warned that this was a disaster in waiting and today there is a catastrophic profits warning and it is only going to get worse. How jolly glad the CEO and his Mrs who sold 3 million shares at 350 to poor dumb sheeple fund managers last November and 3.75 million 170p in September 2020 will be to have banked £16.88 million as the shares are now just 98p. And things will get worse.

Hello Share Splashers. Insurance can be counted as a defensive investment when times are hard, as they are now. People are drawn to increasing their security when world economies are in trouble. One of the biggest insurers is Aviva (AV.) with a market cap of more than £11 billion. And with size comes strength. Too big to fail?

Packaging group Macfarlane (MACF) has announced results for the first half of 2022 and that it expects to deliver another year of profit growth.

I start on if I could, why I would short an opticians chain. I think the answer is I can't  but I explain why I would like to. Then it is onto musicMagpie (MMAG), the fraud that is Supply@ME Capital (SYME), Shield Thereapeutics (STX) - today's lesson in insanity - and Ben's Creek (BEN) and disgraced Adam Wilson.

Describing itself as “a leading producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets”, Directa Plus (DCTA) has announced it “has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the grant of a patent covering the Company's G+ embedded polyurethane membrane”, with the offering “generating considerable interest in the US market”. So what of a current 90p share price?

’Data science and machine learning’ company Insig AI (INSG) has announced “a fourth tranche of £160,000 was drawn down on the convertible loan facility provided by Richard Bernstein… a third tranche of £80,000 was also drawn down on the same day, on the convertible loan facility provided by David Kyte”. So what’s the overall situation here now, with the shares currently at 22p?