I see I3Energy (I3E) heading towards the top of the daily AIM leader board, with its shares up some 35% at 8.1p when I last checked. Now why would that be? A funding deal or just the power of social media based ramping? I think the later for good reason.

Previously writing on “occasion wear and dressy casual wear”-specialising Quiz plc (QUIZ), in January with the shares slipping below 17p I concluded including the “medium-term” in this context tends to mean the near-term ain’t looking good… I again retain prior bearishness here. The update then has now been followed by a “Trading Update and COVID-19 Impact”…

Arena Events Group (ARE) “is pleased to announce that it has conditionally raised £9.5 million (before expenses)… at a price of 10 pence per share… a 71 per cent. premium to the VWAP of an ordinary share for the five business days preceding the date of this announcement”…

There are few oil company’s one can feel very positive about in the current stock market and oil price environment. Rockrose Energy (RRE) has updated the market, but following FCA guidelines has delayed full year accounts. The market liked the update, with the shares significantly up against a backdrop of lower share prices for other producing oilers. I see the update today in a negative light.  

A sophisticated private investor shares his thoughts on what do do now in the face of the current health and financial crisis...

It is not often that a press release has me reaching for a dictionary but today’s Covid 19 update from Big Dish (DISH) manages that. The company’s evil spin doctor my old pal the Sith Lord Zak Mir, tries to use a long word but I am not sure he knows what it means. 

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern (TERN) has offered the market a Covid-19 update. Emphasising its recent £0.8 million fundraise several times (but not mentioning it was trying to get £3 million and failed magnificently) Tern wants us to think the portfolio is well prepared…..let’s see what the ShareProphets RNS Translation Service thinks!

A “Change of accounting year end” announcement from OptiBiotix Health (OPTI). But isn’t that a move of fraudsters or incompetents? Not in this case…

Another day, another bunch of COVID-19 updates. Naturally, we should expect nothing else. As discussed now multiple times on these pages, the key to maximise a company's chances of being a corporate survivor remains a combination of a prudent and smart management team with solid financing…

SO, have you ever looked at the share chart of your favourite company and thought: "Hey, that looks like a ski slope. Sure, I may have lost my pension pot but I wish I could make a game of this."

Hello, Share Diggers. This week I’ve been considering companies that may not suffer as much as others from the lockdown. Today I invite you to look at the big electricity suppliers...

In today's bearcast I start by apologising to someone who is not a pest at all. Then I again discuss Covid 19 and have another podcast on my own website up today which has some relevance to this. I look at surging markets and am sceptical, at Yourgene (YGEN), Genedrive (GDR), FastJet (FJET) and at Versarien (VRS) which has announced a big China deal which cannot be a fraud given the involvment of top nomad SP Angel in doing due diligence and honest as they come Neill Ricketts in constructing the deal.

Previously writing on McBride (MCB), in January with the shares at 67p I concluded the noted performance and current trading and strategic uncertainty sees me retain the stance of bargepole / sell. The shares closed yesterday at 59p – and now from this company which describes itself as “the leading European manufacturer and supplier of Contract Manufactured and Private Label products for the domestic Household and professional cleaning and hygiene markets”, a “COVID-19 Update”…

On 31 January 2020 St James House (SJH) announced that:

With the current state of the markets there isn’t a lot that I would exactly be rushing to buy at the moment, as I think that even the good companies that have strong enough balance sheets to survive relatively unscathed, could well go a fair bit lower yet.

Shares in Walker Greenbank (WGB) are down from 77.5p on my previous update last month and now from this interior furnishings company a “Covid-19 Update” which sees the shares currently towards 30p, a further approaching 10% lower on the back of the announcement…

I am not sure anyone on this website has written about SSP Group (SSPG) before. This may be something about the rather anonymous name of the company. You would know it better as the operator of Upper Crust, Cabin Bar and Ritazza (among other names) food and beverage concessions 'in travel locations, operating restaurants, bars, cafés, food courts, lounges and convenience stores in airports, train stations, motorway service stations and other leisure locations'. Well you can spot the problem in today's backdrop, especially if you have a business that operates 'at approximately 180 airports and 300 rail stations' around the world. Today's update from the company comes in two parts…

AIM-listed Yu Group (YU.) has offered up a Covid-19 statement and delayed its results, mindful of the recent request from the Financial Conduct Authority. Except that the FCA’s request as per its RNS released ended with This statement does not apply to AIM companies. Do I smell a rat? You bet!

A “US Facilities Update” from optical components and systems manufacturer Gooch & Housego (GHH) includes that it anticipates that a likely COVID-19 related legal order’s impact would be “limited” on its operations in Keene, New Hampshire “given a significant proportion of the products and services provided by the facility are expected to be exempt from the scope of the order”. Shares in the company are currently at 754p – down from above 1400p in early February…

Oh dear, oh dear – it is going from dreadful to even more dreadful at NMC Health (NMC), which was suspended in the wake of Dr Shetty’s unreported dealings and a whole load of undisclosed debt coming to light – placing the viability of the company under heavy question. Yesterday we learnt that the debt position has increased from the estimated $5 billion to reach $6.6 billion. The whole outfit is surely toast...