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Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Who is lying to me today?

I am feeling rather unwell so that is it from me for today, a slightly short Bearcast. In it I revisit the Budget from the wretched Tories, the wretched response from Labour and thus conclude that you should teach your kids Chinese, Hindi or Arabic. I look at Tiraputi Graphite (TGR) and corporate governance, Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Bluebird Merchant (BMV) and Investment Evolution Credit (IEC). And now to bed.
HSS
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HSS Hire – power generator businesses sale agreement, for “transformational strategy” or some debt pressures relief?

UK and Ireland tool and equipment hire and related services group HSS Hire (HSS) has issued a “Sale of Power Generator Businesses”-titled announcement including that “the combination of a stronger balance sheet and a more streamlined business will enable greater focus on the group's transformational strategy”. What of this and a share price currently of around 8.5p in response?
TGR
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Just how many NEDS resigning before Tirupati Graphite changes its name to red flag?

Seriously this is beyond a joke. Tirupati Graphite (TGR) has worked its way through more NEDs in the past eight months than I have had inappropriate thoughts about the charming Ms. Isobel de Salis, more of whom later.
IEC
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Letter to Aquis Regulation & Liam Murray at Cairn: You are BOTH bringing the market into disrepute with this £13m con

I am not mincing my words. Yesterday I revealed that there have been not two but three IPOs of businesses essentially following the same loan shark model run by the same folks and all have ended in tears. Australia, the USA OTC market and the Seychelles. Chuck in evidence that Investment Evolution Credit’s (IEC) claimed operations in the US do not actually operate and you’d have thought that advisor Cairn which floated this scam just before Christmas and Aquis Regulation would be rushing to act. I have dropped them both a note and cc’d in the CEO of Aquis to focus a few minds
DISP
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Has Dispensa and Dominic White broken the 2006 Companies Act? Does the FCA care?

Shares in Dominic White run sham Dispensa (DISP) continue to trade on the Standard List until they are delisted on the 18th. This is despite the resignation of its advisor VSA Capital (VSA) and auditor Moore Kingston Smith and despite Dispensa lying about why the auditor quit. Now I ask the useless FCA, which is meant to regulate the Standard List, does it care if the 2006 Companies Act has been breached?
KEFI

The Convicted Felon Lord Ashbourne on Kefi

For what it is worth , the convicted felon Hooray Henry Charlie Gibson, Lord Ashbourne to you dirty oiks, has, at Edison, published a new research note on Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) suggesting huge upside. It reads:
TRYB
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Tribe Technology – “First generation autonomous drill rig update”, attempted ramptastic ahead of interims?

Describing itself as “a disruptive developer and manufacturer of autonomous mining equipment”, Tribe Technology (TRYB) has issued a “First generation autonomous drill rig update”-titled RNS announcement. What is this “update” considered to be RNS-worthy and what of a current 6.25p share price?
BIRD
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Blackbird – “Director Subscription”, but how significant is it?…

Considering itself as a “market-leading cloud video platform” company, Blackbird plc (BIRD) has announced that, following its recent placing announcement and release of its annual results, “certain members of the board (and associated family members) and the company's management have conditionally subscribed for a total of approximately £70,000 of new shares in the company”. Hmmm, how significant really is this investment?
PFC
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Petrofac: the debt is telling you that the shares will collapse

Debt markets are always more efficient than equity markets. The screenshot below ( hat tip TK) shows that Petrofac (PFC) debt can now be bought at less than fifty cents in the dollar and the price is falling fast. That tells you that the equity is near as damn it worthless. Stay short or go short, this is free money for the bears as I have been flagging up for a while.
Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Capita is still Crapita

I start with the budget and i am not impressed.at all sorts of levels. Then it is the US elections and I hope that you laid Nikki Haley as advised earlier in the week as she was thrashed on Super Tuesday and is now out of the race. Then Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Chill Brands (CHLL) and Capita (CPI) - the data relating to the podcast reference to Islamophobia and Anti Semitism is HERE 
IEC
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ANOTHER DAMNING EXPOSE: Investment Evolution Credit PLC – the tiny Spanish business which was formerly associated with a Seychelles Stock Exchange listing

On 5 March 2024, IEC announced a proposed “expansion into Spain using AI Lending Technology” via a smelly related party transaction as I outlined HERE. Naturally no numbers were provided but the link below provides the following information
BEN
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If Ben’s Creek owes you $1 it is in trouble, if it owes you $14 million you are in trouble

Having said that it would lend Ben’s Creek (BEN) an additional $5 million last month, 29.9% shareholder Avani has today raised that to $7.5 million or possibly $10 million. The first five has already been spent on “working capital” or, in plain English, funding ongoing losses. And there is more bad news.
The new facility will be repayable on July 1 2025 but can be called in at any time if Ben’s fails to ship coal in any two consecutive months. The interest rate is an eye watering 13% although I certain circumstances that can rise to 16%.
SIS
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Science in Sport – “Trading Update”. Er, what about the 2024 outlook against expectations which dare not speak its name?

There is an announcement, titled “Trading Update”, today from Science in Sport (SIS), but which also has a headline “Fundamental Change in Operating Model and Restructuring of Cost Base”. Hmmm, as is usual, is that because trading isn’t going well?
CHLL
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Meet Homophobic and paranoid Bulletin Board Moron of the week Lionel Kipper who is long and strong Chill Brands

Lionel posts on the Chill Brands (CHLL) board on ADVFN almost obsessively. He has three themes of which the first is that as the shares sink lower and lower, what an ever greater buying opportunity this presents. The second…
ESKN
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More Ouzo As Esken – Ex-Stobart Group - Announces Coming Demise

It is another round of Ouzo at ShareProphets Towers as Esken (ESKN), the former Stobart Group, has announced it has run out of runway at Southend airport. I have been saying sell all the way down from 35p in May 2021. The shares are now just 0.04p as the company admits there will be nothing left.
SND
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Sondrel – “pleased to announce” convertible loan agreement, but only because the alternative was insolvency?

Sondrel (SND) states that it is “pleased to announce that it has entered into a £874,600 secured 15% convertible loan agreement”. With though the shares currently at 10p, compared to above 60p as recently as August last year and a 55p per share AIM listing only in October 2022, how ‘pleasing’ is the agreement really?
CHLL
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Chill Brands: ahead of budget catastrophe it is what it is still not saying

The budget later today will almost certainly see chancellor Jeremy Hunt stiff smokers with extra taxes but also start to stiff vapers with taxes too. Gone is the idea of using fiscal policy to shift smokers into healthier vaping. Both vices are bad for your health and Nanny state will punish sinners in the pocket in order to fund the hiring of more diversity officers, Gary Lineker’s pay packet and inflation beating pay rises for NHS consultants on £150,000 a year. No doubt Chill Brands (CHLL) will post a response but that is not the real issue.
Boom
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PepsiCo owned Doritos trumps Bud Light in #Gowokegobroke as it hires a paedophile brand ambassador

I kid you not. You might have thought that the liberal arts graduates in marketing departments across corporate America would have learned from Bud Lite's collapsing sales after it hired the annoying trans activist Dylan Mulvaney as its brand ambassador. But no, Doritos, Mexican style crisps that taste of cardboard, has gone one better with its hire of the ‘transgender artist’ Samantha Hudson, formally known as Iván González Ranedo, as its brand ambassador in Spain in a sponsored program called “Crunch Talks.” Samantha is not just trans…
BMV
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Bluebird Merchant Ventures – progress in the Philippines and more on the way in South Korea, Strong Buy

Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) has announced the appointment of a Philippines-focussed environmental consultancy for the Environmental Impact Study of the Lobo high-grade gold mining opportunity within the Batangas project joint venture in the Philippines and that it looks forward to reporting the milestones as the work progresses.
CCS
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Crossword Cybersecurity – after in November “firmly committed to achieving profitability without needing to raise additional capital”, now loan notes issuance!

Crossword Cybersecurity (CCS) has announced “it has entered into agreements for five year, unsecured, convertible loans to the value of £275,000… to provide additional working capital as the company focuses on achieving EBITDA and cash breakeven in the second half of 2024”. Hmmm, just stating “focuses” on something far from means that it will actually be achieved and how sufficient is £275,000?
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