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BEN
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Ben’s Creek: What’s the Story, Margin glory (Not)

Oh, what a roue is that John Story. Breaking lock-ins at Cellular Goods (CBX). Consequently fired from Escape Hunt (ESC). Pumping the Chill Brands fraud with podcast lies, and subsequently engaging with Seth Freedman, of Harvey Weinstein infamy, to harass and menace me. Now, we turn to Ben’s Creek (BEN), the coal promote of disgraced Adam Wilson.

TXP
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Despite unconfirmed rumours of delays, Touchstone Exploration remains a good speculative buy!

Touchstone Exploration (TXP) seems to be suffering from rumours on a Telegram group that there are delays to its Cascadura gas asset reaching into production, and this has caused the share price to plummet, currently down over 11%.

Gold
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Don’t forget the golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules

Straws blowing in the wind are often said to presage great tempests and I believe that this chart shows just such a straw.

SBRY
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Are J Sainsbury shares cheap?

Almost every week J Sainsbury (SBRY) makes a food delivery to our home. It is probably not the cheapest nor the highest quality supplier, but it is proximate, reliable and - in my opinion - an above average player. Spot my aspirational middle-class background! I cannot remember the last time I have held shares in the company though, and that’s been a good year-to-date call. Despite offering a 5% dividend yield, the shares are down over 20% so far in 2022. Is it time to buy or keep on avoiding after numbers today?

Price-Vs-Value

ShareProphets readers tips for 2022 competition – end June update

Having asked for readers tips for 2022 for the prize of 1/2 litre of Tom Winnifrith's Greek Hovel olive oil (2022 harvest) HERE, the following is the (just after) six months update on performance (to be eligible needed to have selected, on a once per username basis, a buy & sell pick from the LSE, AIM casino or Aquis lobster pot and the stocks not to have been suspended at the commencement of 2022).

ANTO

Shiny Copper Price Gives this South American Miner a Good Chance of Raising its Share Price and Divi

Hello Share Wallowers. The old punter has drawn your wise attention to copper in a few fairly recent articles. The fact is that it’s used widely in the production of electricity. And it’s useful in both dirty ways of producing power and in the green revolution. Its conductive powers are going to be in increasing demand. Which leads me to Antofagasta (ANTO), which owns several copper mines in South America.

KGF
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Enjoy the day off US investors, the excitement is starting later in the week (& Kingfisher tomorrow)

I read the other day that the "cost of July 4th cookout is 17% higher compared to a year ago”. I am sure it has not stopped the average American having a good time over the last three days. It is almost as if they did something important on this day of the year a few years back. Meanwhile, it is going to be an interesting week.

AO
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AO World: tries to reassure, but fails – keep shorting

Yesterday, there were press reports concerning third-party credit insurers: they had tightened their terms, which would lead to suppliers demanding cash sooner from AO World (AO.). Today, the company served to clarify the position, yet seems to have calmed few nerves, if any at all.

IQG

IQGeo – emphasises “important project” selection, but how do the financials look now?

Previously writing on geospatial software group IQGeo (IQG), approaching a year ago with the shares at 122p I concluded the valuation looked challenging. The group has today though announced “Global top 5 telecom operator selects IQGeo” and what of the shares sparking higher towards 140p?

CINE
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BREAKING: Cineworld breaches banking covenants - but is only telling some people

Whilst drowning in debt, Cineworld (CINE) has made no formal announcement. Instead, its in-house PR clown confirms - by email - that:

UHS
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Finally, the FCA boots Umuthi off the Standard List - yet it is understandably shy as to why, given its own failure to stop this fraud

A year after its shares were suspended, South African fraud, Umuthi (UHS), has been booted off the Standard List. The regulator is rather coy as to why - perhaps due to its own incompetence in ever admitting this POS.

FCAP
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The real reason Smug Sam Smith quit as FinnCap CEO was to get her end away...whatever

Pass the sick bag. You might think that Sam Smith opted to quit as boss of FinnCap (FCAP) the other day was because in the three and a half years since its IPO the shares have slumped by a third despite City advisers hauling in record fees for the past two years. But as the bear market growls it is a matter of when, not if, FinnCrap serves up a dire profits warning so it is better to walk now before the merde really hits the proverbial. But today's Femail section of the appalling Daily Mail suggests there is a lot more to the story. For starters did you know that the firm Sam started was in the the FTSE 100?

Gold

Video: Central Banks Admit They have Lost Control of Inflation - gold should be at $3,000 oz

Jaime Carrasco predicted inflation, as the marginal usefulness of excessive debt declined. There is plenty of evidence that a currency reset is coming; Governments' taking on the debts of banks proved this. Global trade patterns are rapidly shifting, and gold is part of that equation.

STG

Strip Tinning – “Glazing Contract Wins for EV”, just how “significant” is the new ‘nomination’?

Strip Tinning (STG) “is pleased to announce it has secured a significant new 5 year nomination with BMW for its Glazing division, underlining Strip Tinning's position as a leading supplier of specialist connectors to the Glazing sector for all classes of automotive vehicles manufactured worldwide”. With the shares currently responding more than 6% higher to 105p, just how “significant” is the new nomination?

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Dumb & Dumber Britain - Blowjo edition

I start with two examples of BlowJo's utter stupidity. Then, I touch on how Big Corporate is rallying around Halifax, and its woke hectoring of customers. After that, onto Nanosynth (NNN) - where the share price target is now a fall of 80-100% - and Valereum (VLRM): expect a share price collapse within weeks.

AEXG

That's Gold in Greenlands' Icy Mountains and this Small Miner Expects A Glittering Future

Hello Share Seekers. You might think gold companies share prices would be doing better than they are given the pressure on currencies caused by the Ukraine war, Covid and inflation. But maybe the rise has just been delayed and will soon bear fruit. Which brings me to AEX Gold (AEXG), of which Tom and Steve are fans. Devotees of that great Danish political thriller, Borgen, will be interested to know that AEX searches for gold in Greenland.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the spiral of death when stakeholders smell a cash crisis – ref AO World

I start with some explosions here at the Welsh Hovel, and how Bearcast listener, G, cannot assist. Talking of explosions, I comment on the IRA-loving cottage burners, as I attended a Welsh independence march with the kids, yesterday. In hindsight, I'd rather have attended the Pride March. Well, maybe not - it is a marginal call. Then, it is onto SPACs and the schoolboy error of Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT). Finally, AO World (AO), which looks utterly screwed. 

EZJ
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Do I dump my EasyJet shares, after it screwed me so badly as a customer?

I haven't posted much these last few days - I've been abroad for the first time since January 2020. What excitement!  I'm sure a bunch of you have been to Gibraltar, though I had not.  I have two key tips.  If, unlike me, you are visiting to explore lower taxation and other matters, do not discuss it in front of others having their breakfast.  Second, you must ask yourself whether to fly with British Airways i.e. IAG (IAG) or EasyJet (EZJ). And - if you should prefer the former - whether or not you should hold EasyJet shares.

Quiz
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The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #148

Grab a cup of tea, sit back, and test your knowledge against the other ShareProphets members. Write your score in the comments, there are no prizes, and most important of all – no Googling!

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