A “pleased to announce” trading statement from United Carpets (UCG), “the third largest chain of specialist retail carpet and floor covering stores in the UK”, and the shares currently at 4.25p, more than 30% higher…

Gold miner in Egypt Centamin (CEY) has updated emphasising “the third quarter marked another solid performance”, yet the shares have dropped back to 131.3p. The reason is a reduction in guidance for 2021 but the market has over-reacted…

I am a fan of PrimaryBid. It allows ordinary punters like you and I to take part in placings hitherto reserved for City insiders. So everyone should sign up HERE. But there are two pieces of news today.

In today’s podcast I start with PrimaryBid and the way brokers are crying foul on the London Stock Exchange backing it financially. Then onto, quite good, H2 numbers from ADVFN (AFN) but my real disquiet at the way my taxes are going on supporting the lifestyle of an overpaid board.

Previously writing on secure payment and customer contact technology company Eckoh (ECK), last month with the shares at 68.5p I was cautious – concluding that the valuation looked to demand further rapid business growth amidst “the current macro-economic and COVID-19 uncertainty”. Now a “Half Year Trading Update”…

I have written a couple of times about THG Holdings (THG), The Hut Group, about which I essentially stated that you should not be chasing this one after the first day IPO pop from the 500p list price to a c. 600p share price. Well that was all fine and dandy, until the last week or so when the share has pushed up about 10% or so. Funnily enough, today’s third quarter update notes not only an acceleration in revenue growth (to 38.6% from 35.8% in H1) aided by strong progress in the direct-to-consumer and its Ingenuity Division (‘beauty manufacturing and product development for third parties’), but increased full year revenue growth target from a c. 25% increase to a new guidance range of ‘c. £1.48bn to c. £1.52bn (+30% to +33%)’…

I am not suggesting that Mars, the owner of the Skittles brand of sweets, is going bust. But I wonder if the woke millenials in its UK marketing department have covered themselves in glory this year.

Hello, Share Swingers. I tend to regard BT Group (BT.A) as one of my biggest ever losers. But it’s a misconception, as, at the beginning of this century, I made a lot of money buying and selling the shares. Things started to go wrong when BT’s big plans to invest in televising football probably turned out to be not such a good idea after all. Everyone who tries to make money out of online subscribers knows it’s a hard battle as, for some strange reason, most people expect internet services, however useful, to be free. I still hold a bucketful of BT shares and I expect better things of them now. Why?…

Gold recovery company Goldplat (GDP) “is pleased to announce an operational update for the first quarter ended 30 September 2020” – and the shares have currently responded slightly higher above 8p…

I have been on the case of Trainline (TRN) for some time but events this week now mark this stock out as a compelling short.  The deadwood press will not say so because they concern a female CEO, a poster girl for woke corporatism. But since I don’t hold with this PC shite I simply look at the facts.

I did what 3 million Welsh residents could not do today and had a pub lunch. But I’ve broken the border and am back at the Welsh Hovel. I discuss my day, why I think Nigel is wrong on investing in residential property and ask why Link is being sued over Neil Woodford’s crimes yet he seems able to escape scot free.

Here are five long reads that have nothing to do with shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don’t you? 

Welcome to the Sunday ShareProphets Pub Quiz. Find your own beer, sit in the most comfortable seat, and, under no circumstances, can you Google the answer. Only I can do that. There are no prizes but post your scores in the comments for bouquets and brickbats.

Perhaps I should have included idiotic government edicts in that list as well, but it is clear to me that the globe faces a massive financial crisis. We’ve been around the block on the Coronavirus pin that popped the everything bubble and that it could have been any old pin but where we are today is really scaring me. The question is where does one turn?

The most read non-Tom article this week is Centamin – Q3 Report and Updated Outlook: BUY – the market has overreacted (again) by Nigel Somerville (for the second week in a row) at a wonderful number one or at number five, including Bearcasts and Tom’s new shareshow. Which one is the best of the week? Tell me in the comments.

Gold miner in Egypt Centamin (CEY) has updated we investors emphasising “the third quarter marked another solid performance”, yet the shares have dropped back to 131.3p., That is because of what it says about 2021 but the market has over-reacted.

Kefi (KEFI) never seems to make it easy for we long suffering and loyal shareholders but on balance, the news on how it will fund the Tulu Kapi gold mine in Ethiopia is very good indeed.

In today’s podcast I recount three crossings of the border out of house arrest Wales into free England and on a visit to a local store. I discuss Carolyn Harris MP on kettles, a woman who makes Matt Hancock seem like Einstein. I discuss what a dead cat bounce actually is with reference to Malcolm’s article of earlier and also why I’m glad fund managers are telling MP’s where to stick it when it comes to who should run Boohoo.com (BOO)

Is this the end of fiat?