Hello, Share Worriers. As buying shares isn’t currently an option for most of us, I continue my series of companies that should not be harmed by the present crisis. Some might even benefit from the restrictions we are now under. For example, I’ve heard Netflix is attracting many more accounts from people who need something extra to watch at home. But today’s highlighted share is BT Group (BT.A)...

I start with a few minutes on how the Covid 19 pandemic has brought out the good in many people and the very worst in others. I've today done another podcast on Coronavirus which I am proud of on my own website HERE. I look at soaring markets and gold and asset bubbles I discuss IQE (IQE), Photo-Me (PHTM) and Ascent Resources (AST)

Canaccord quit as Nomad to Versarien (VRS) partly because of the social media antics of its CEO Lyin’ Neill Ricketts. Obviously, new Nomad SP Angel does not care about that as it was happy to act for proven fraud MySquar (MYSQ). Do John Meyer and his cronies have any standards at all? And how will AIM Regulation take Neill’s latest lies

Vehicle tracking systems, software and services company Quartix (QTX) has updated on trading – with the shares - already down from more than 440p last month - currently responding further lower below 240p…

It looks as though the mass dash for cash may have halted abruptly as far as gold is concerned – and silver. Having been lower before closing last week at just under $1500, it seems that yesterday’s announcement from Fed Chairman, Buzz Lightyear of QE to inifinity….and beyond has set the gold price alight. We are now at $1665 and rising vertically...

A “COVID-19 Update” from property, energy, transport, water, defence and government services & resources professional services group RPS (RPS) – and the shares, already down from having reached 180p last month, currently a further approaching 14% down on the day towards 40p…

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Formerly AIM then NEX and now ASX listed sub scale resource dog Doriemus has today learned a valuable lesson: whan a rat says that his word is his bond, or indeed actually signs a placing letter, that means nothing.

Another round of coronavirus updates today...you know the playbook by now. The only one that really caused me to arch an eyebrow was from my old sparring partner Amigo Holdings (AMGO), which observed that it 'has taken the decision to temporarily pause all new lending activity, except for lending to key workers in exceptional circumstances' and later on talked about switching staff to look after customers who had 'a need for forbearance'. Certainly time for the company to make new friends. Now back to some news out late last week…

Yesterday Versarien (VRS) announced a death spiral on steroids which will only postpone bankruptcy and will see the share price shredded but the RNS was, I believe, an exercise in market manipulation and market abuse. Only a Nomad like SP Angel of the fraud MySquar infamy, could have signed off on it. I have written to the regulators demanding that, again, they take action

AIM-listed Neil Woodford dog Eve Sleep (EVE) released FY19 results this morning. My immediate thought is who would buy a bed right now, amid fears of Coronavirus, job losses and with the UK in near total lockdown? But these are last year’s numbers, before the invisible invader was around and it looks to me as though Eve will need even more cash, despite its laudy claims that the latest rebuild strategy has left the company operationally profitable. Let’s take a look at what that actually means……

Hello Share Takers. There’s too much risk in buying shares now. But it’s useful to highlight the companies which shouldn't suffer too much because of the virus and will be the first to recover value as the crisis peaks. Today I want to look at one of my previously commended companies, Pets at Home (PETS)...

I start with a few personal thoughts on phoning my elderly relatives in the era of Coronavirus. Then I look at Versarien (VRS), Open Orphan (ORPH), Tasty (TAST), Burford (BUR) and Carson Block of Muddy Waters and N Brown (BWNG) which prompts me to ask when the taxpayer will have to bail out the banks?

Previously writing on Aeorema Communications (AEO) – Cannes Lions festival postponement sees loss now anticipated…, I concluded the shares have currently responded further lower towards 16p, capitalising the company at circa £1.5 million. There will be further detail with half-year results due by the end of this month, but still currently a possible pick for recovery and on the watchlist. Now those results have been announced…

Versarien (VRS) this morning announced “subscription to raise £6 million”. Folks looked at the headline and the shares soared to 31p. Ha! Mugged by Ricketts again! Then they read the release. It is bullshit. Death spiral provider Lanstead is not putting up a cent up front and the total amount handed to Neill Ricketts’ bag of shite company over the next two years could well be well below its monthly cashburn! Ricketts really is the most shameless bullshitter and only scumbags like SP Angel, who took over as Nomad after Canaccord resigned, would sign off on such misleading gibberish which contains one MONSTER lie.

Tungsten (TUNG) has updated including “in the last week, we have been contacted by a number of our largest global buyers who are looking to increase their electronic invoice volumes through us as part of their response to the global pandemic. This action is being driven by an urgent concern that office closures mean many paper documents can no longer be effectively distributed and processed by a widely dispersed home based workforce. These buyers include a number of fast moving consumer goods companies who are providing products in high demand right now, and who see Tungsten as having the perfect online digital platform to meet their current needs”. The shares have currently responded up towards 24p, though still down from just below 34p when I previously updated earlier this month…

At the moment most of the focus on commodities that I have been seeing has been on gold and oil, and what people are forecasting for the coming months and longer term. But I suggest we are missing a great opportunity here.

A new financial life support for crap companies like Versarien (VRS) today seems to have appeared in recent years in the form of an equity sharing agreement – lots of companies have done such deals with all the usual death spiral providers, hence the howls of “it’s a death spiral”.  However, they are not new and there are key differences with the standard death spiral.

Previously writing on events group Hyve (HYVE), early this month with the shares towards 60p I concluded including it does also state in the announcement that its estimates “are based on the current situation and therefore could change if the situation improves or worsens” – though with the current trend and the already governments, authorities and organisations own travel restrictions, I suggest the “improves” there unlikely for it. Possibly one to watch for when the situation does eventually improve, but with also net debt, I’d currently sell / avoid. Today a “Further Coronavirus update”…

To be fair to fully listed ITV (ITV) it has to be commended for this morning’s update at regards Covid-19 in much the same way as one should applaud the statement last week from Next (NXT) as Chris Bailey did. It should also be commended for chopping the FY dividend to conserve cash in this uncertain time – that is the responsible thing to do. But the shares have been marked down, suggesting there are problems – although as Chris Bailey points out, they are surely far less severe than at CEO Carolyn McCall’s old stamping ground over at Easyjet (EZJ)!

So the FCA has 'strongly requested' to any company which was planning to publish results in the next fortnight that they observe a moratorium. I understand why it has requested it – high uncertainty and a real difficulty in doing anything other than quoting your banking facilities, that you are reducing costs and having to pull some combination of your full year guidance / dividend etc. However information is the lifeblood of any market…