Shares in gold miner in Egypt Centamin (CEY) are down sharply on what is bad news. But the market has over-reacted in a big way and since we also expect gold to head higher in the run up to Christmas, this looks a great trading buy…

An “open letter to shareholders” from recently-appointed CEO of guarantor loans company Amigo Holdings (AMGO), Gary Jennison, includes that he needs to ask the regulator “questions and listen to their answers”. But is he going to like those answers?…

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow, next year, never, investment company Tern plc (TERN) has announced a TR-1 and…….oh dear, oh dear!…

Supply@ME Capital (SYME) is “very pleased to appoint Crowe as our auditor. Their size, international presence and sector awareness should complement very well the platform’s scalability plans and, accordingly, the current company cross-border expansion”. Er, a few things…

From sub 20p at the start of this month, shares in Eurasia Mining (EUA) last closed at 37p – and today a “Statement re Share Price Movement”…

AIM-listed Turkish gold-producer Ariana Resources (AAU) has released its Q3 preliminary production results from Kiziltepe this morning and it seems to me that right now the company can do little wrong. The bad news (which we already knew) is that mining has shifted from the higher grade Arzu South pit to the lower grade Arzu North and Derya pits. But ore throughput at the plant hit a new record and plans to increase throughput are on the way…

“BigDish Plc (LON: DISH), a technology and software solutions company currently specialising in the food technology space, is pleased to announce a Strategy and Operational Update”. But this latest spin from its “Digital Communications Officer”, a certain Zak Mir, presently sees the shares at 1.4p, 12.5% lower…

Cake Box (CBOX) describes itself as a ‘specialist retailer of fresh cream cakes’ and has a store a few miles from where I live…not that I have troubled its doors. Whilst the company has traded positively since its 2018 IPO, the stock has had its issues above and beyond the high profile failure at Patisserie Valerie…

Hello, Share Takers. You might think it odd that I commend to your further inquiry a company that relies on office rents and town centre commerce for its income. But it seems to me that the British Land (BLND) share price is too low. Especially if you bear in mind that the virus won’t last forever. It will disappear with an effective vaccine, if not sooner from a natural death. And British Land is doing better than expected in the virus’s unpleasant reign…

My tips of the year were published at the end of December HERE and HERE. How are they looking now?…

Concepta (CPT) has announced results for the first half of 2020, including emphasising “corporate reorganisation and cost reductions to allow funds to be redeployed into commercial efforts” and “new product development focus now on superior App Dx opportunity and wider testing suite”…

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?

AIM-listed Catenae Innovation (CTEA) is rapidly losing its Covid appeal. Having ended the pre-Covid period at around 0.26p per share, the company jumped on the Covid bandwagon and saw its shares roof it to peak at over 9p. But since the end of August Catenae’s lustre had dulled and now the shares are at 2.3p. It seems that what goes up must come down and as such there seems to be a long way to go. One reason could be related to its bandwagon Onsite-ID App, which we were led to believe would see some results as part of Newcastle Premier Health’s Access Planning Control. So what has happened? On 25 August we were told:

I talked a little bit about deals yesterday, noting that ‘the old mantra of “price is what you pay and value is what you get” is still hugely relevant. In terms of price or relative value then the UK market does rather stand out at the moment. Elsewhere, I even used a chart in a presentation recently that showed that UK equity performance was at a fifteen year relative performance low against even Eurozone equities. Kind of embarrassing!…

Tom Winnifrith hinted at a perceived problem in the last placing by technically insolvent POS AIM-listed URU Metals (URU) and I fear history is about to repeat. Back at the beginning of May the shares raced ahead to 200p and then a placing at 85p was announced. Now the shares have raced ahead again to 285p on minimal volume…..are shareholders about to be plundered again?…

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.

Before we get to the most-read articles of the week, I want to plug the Netflix documentary The China Hustle, which I watched yesterday. Essentially, they have made a documentary about Nigel Somerville and the Filthy Forty…

Chaarat Gold (CGH) has updated investors with news including “following the recent political disruptions in the Kyrgyz Republic, Chaarat confirms that its projects in the country have not been materially impacted”…

ECB secretly trade marks the name “Digital Euro”. DE for short…

I start with a few personal thoughts as I sit here with my father. Thank you for your kind words and prayers. Then I deal with the idea that ShareProphets and I run a shorting gang. It is libellous tosh.  Then to the US election. I am almost ready to call both the Senate and the Presidency for the Dems. I called the House that way eons ago. I say almost and then discuss what that means for you and me.