Congratulations to those remembering Steve Holdsworth with a pint at 10 AM today. That is more than I could manage. Staying with the booze theme I discuss why Naked Wines (WINE) may run out of cash and how bad it is and could be. Then it is onto the housebuilders: is the bad news priced in with sub double figure PEs?  Sharestock is now 14 days away. To get your seat book HERE 

Shares in RiverFort Global Opportunities (RGO) have recently slipped to 0.85p to buy, though it also has announced a dividend per share of 0.038p which was paid last week

By my rough calculations the second of Versarien’s (VRS) disastrously expensive death spirals struck with Landstead has come to an end. The good news is that this prevents roughly 25,000 shares being dumped in the market every day. The bad news is that Versarien no longer receives around £100,000 a month from Lanstead. It’s also bad news for the unnamed “agent” who has been trousering a 2.5% cut of the money!

This will be music to the ears of Nigel Somerville. Alasdair Macleod predicts that the world is going to hell in a hand cart within months and that we should all buy gold as a result. But then, asd the Head of Research for GoldMoney, this has been his message for a while.

Yet to admit that its MD, poached from John Lewis with great fanfare, has been handed a P45 and a black bin liner, Parsley Box (MEAL) is spamming folks like me, with some offers showing aggressive discounting. This is a clear sign that its cash position is becoming increasingly challenging. And why wouldn’t it?

A Friday before a bank holiday weekend intra-day “Update on Capital Markets Day” announcement from Safestyle UK (SFE). Now, why don’t I think it is going to be good news from the company which describes itself as “the leading retailer and manufacturer of PVCu replacement windows and doors to the UK homeowner market” I wonder?

Hello share bank holiday fans. Allow me to stick my neck out. When the markets re-open on Tuesday, the Footsie will fall. I’m 95% in cash at the moment and that’s how I’m going to stay. Until some kind of financial good news comes along. And it seems that won't happen for some time.

In today's podcast I discuss today's breaking news on disgraced Neil Woodford's comeback and the scandalous deception Nanosynth (NNN) has attempted . Then it is on to UK and US house prices, that Moody's forecast and related matters. Then Revolution Beauty (REVB) and Oxford Cannibanoid (OCTP) - as tipped by naughty Bethany Garner of Forbes who really should have her bottom spanked for her antics.

Sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) shares have had an eventful existence since IPO in June last year. Listed at 3p, the stock collapsed down to around 1.4p within six months before an unusual series of boardroom trades ramped the shares up as high as 13.25p in March – when the company got a smash’n’grab placing away at 7.5p. Now they are down at just 1.425p: what on earth is going on?

You might think that disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford and his business partner Craig Newman would want to lie low with their ill gotten tens of millions until the FCA enquiry into them was concluded. But perhaps you cannot keep a good man down.

It is nearly a Bank Holiday weekend, so typically you would have very quiet markets (with only a few dodgy small caps slipping out very late and very shabby numbers). However, even for boring larger cap ex-institutional investors such as myself, there is plenty happening. Admittedly, I am fed up hearing about the world’s media talking about higher gas and electricity prices as if they barely knew that Ofgem existed. Here is my top tip for macro and micro economy watchers: just because something has not gone up for ten years, does not mean it cannot go up. It is just like people borrowing money at super-low interest rates for a decade or more and then complaining when the yield (finally) goes up. And talking about interest rates, I guess I will be keeping half an eye on the views of the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium later today.

I rather think that what somebody does in their private life is their own lookout, especially when the incident in question was nine years ago. But in this ESG obsessed world I wonder how other folks might take it. Especially when the company, whose CEO follows the Prince Harry ( of old) party code, yacks on ad nauseum about its ESG credentials.

nanosynth (NNN) has today issued a grotesquely misleading press release which tells investors that it has secured access to almost £3 million in death spiral funding. It has not. It has deceived mugs. Two years ago Versarien (VRS) issued an RNS about a deal with the same death spiral provider which I pushed the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation on, and which they forced loathsome Neill Ricketts and hois motley crew to correct. I have now written to the Oxymorons again…

OptiBiotix Health (OPTI) has announced that it now expects half-year sales in its new structure to be materially lower than expected and, though it expects sales normalising in the second half and healthy growth next year, the current year is to now be “insufficient to make up the H1 deficit”. We profusely apologise for the short-term disappointment though, having spoken to the company, what to do now with the shares down at 20p to buy, a £17.6 million market cap?

Chaired by the vile ex Tory MP Tony Baldry, Westminster Group (WSG) is running on vapours (yet again) . That we all knew as explained here. But what the company is not admitting to is a hammer blow from Sierra Leone which will destroy the only profitable part of this business. Let me explain.

On 23 March 2020 Versarien (VRS) announced a £6 million subscription by death spiral provider Lanstead. Of course, it was nothing of the sort. The proceeds have been a fraction of that and, following pressure from this site, AIM regulation forced Versarien to issue an RNS on April 6 admitting as much. Wind forward to today ands Lanstead and nanosynth (NNN) have engaged in an almost identical deception. Does nobody learn anything?

Hello Share Speakers. This old punter continues to think the Footsie will dive soon. Keeping it static at the moment is the optimistic hope that the world will avoid a recession. But inflation is so rampant these days, that that rosy prospect is thinning. Never mind, there are still some companies that look defensive enough to be worth a look at. Like this one, for instance.

I start with a joke the late Steve Holdsworth would have appreciated for I can confirm that reports of his death were, sadly, not exaggerated. Then onto two US oil plays where I see big troubles ahead: Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) and Zephyr Energy (ZPHR). Then onto the failings of Aquis in covering up the sins of disgraced Graham Mullis at Love Hemp (LIFE) and onto another shocker from the lobster pot Evrima (EVA), hat tip M for that one. Finally, a detailed look at Powerhouse Energy (PHE), its dismal interims, Zak's appalling forecast/plain paid for ramping and the looming cash crisis set to unfold by this time next year. The big tent for ShareStock arrived today. Gosh it is heavy. I am dreading trying to put it up. To get inside it book your seats HERE.

Mining services company Capital Limited (CAPD) has announced results for the first half of 2022 and that “the underlying demand in the market continues to be encouraging”.

Floor coverings company Airea (AIEA) states it “is pleased to announce the appointment of Mederic Payne as Chief Executive Officer”, emphasising he “is an experienced business leader with a strong background in multinational home improvement retail and wholesale”. Following also half-year results from the company last month, what’s the situation here now from a 28.5p share price?