And now from Wales, by just 30 yards, it is my new weekly video show. This costs 99p per episode, and you can either listen to, or watch, a sparky interview with Red Rock Resources (RRR) boss Andrew Bell and then a detailed four way with myself, Chris Bailey, Gary Newman and Nigel Somerville on all things mining. Which metals are the ones to be in and why and how to play that. If you invest in mining stocks this show is for you..You can access the show HERE 

With a hat tip to MB, I note that at 4:30 PM and 4:31 PM Friday, Futura Medical (FUM) announced that there was a placing and retail offer at 40p per share. Unfortunately somebody at Liberum had forgotten that the market doesn’t actually close until 4:35 PM after the closing auction (which has been the case since 1997).

With apologies to Ian Hislop, seeing shares in AIM-listed jam-tomorrow (but never delivers) IoT Investment Company Tern plc (TERN) riding high suggests that either the market is now fully set for a big tumble or I am a banana. Tom Winnifrith was struck in yesterday’s Bearcast with the stock at 25p. But by market close they were sitting at an amazing 30.25p (mid) – an incredible 44% rise in one day for a company with last stated net assets (cash plus a portfolio of illiquid unlisted cash-hungry investments) of just 7.3p!

From the FCA’s spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2019, 2020 and thus far in 2021 (by net short position %, those in bold not on the list at the start of 2021) – and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week…

Last week I noted that the calamitous latest US jobs data had helped the yellow metal over the $1800 mark and Gold reached $1831 as the magnitude of the miss sank in. Jordan Roy-Byrne, of TheDailyGold.com had been predicting a rise to between $1825-1850 before hitting overhead resistance and this week saw inflation data pushing ever higher which was taken as a cue to sell off.

Hello, Share Shakers. The fact that the Footsie fell during the week is bonkers. What are big traders afraid of? It beats me. Even the ultra-cautious Bank of England is predicting a huge leap forward in growth. 

Previously writing on Panther Metals (PALM), we noted value creation potential from an intention to make an IPO of its Australian assets on the ASX Exchange. The company now argues a “significant step” towards this.

Toople (TOOP), which states that it “provides bespoke telecoms services for its fast growing target market of UK SMEs”, has announced a ‘long term incentive plan’ “to encourage long-term value creation for the group’s shareholders and to align the interests of the participants with shareholders”. Er…

It’s a personally difficult day as I explain. But at least we have great news on the Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks front as you can see HERE. Then I discuss shares, ref Tern (TERN), Quindell (QPP) and the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME).

I have been a fan of multinational enterprise software company Sage Group (SGE) for a while now. However  as I observed in a piece here last year  the reason I bought the stock was based on my hope of seeing it return to the 800 pence share price level it achieved during 2018 and 2019. We are nowhere near there yet, so is there still plenty of reason to be optimistic or not?

Value retailer of arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery including trading from 527 stores across the UK and Ireland, TheWorks.co.uk (WRKS) has announced a trading update emphasising “a resilient” year ended 2nd May 2021 performance and recent “encouraging” sales. How resilient and encouraging?…

Previously writing on supplier of technical fluid power components and services Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), last month we concluded, at worst, hold tight and probably still a recovery buy as trading recovery continued. There has also since been a notable director shares purchase, BUT…

Kazakhstan gold miner AltynGold (ALTN) “is pleased to announce its 1Q21 production results and financial update”, and the shares have currently responded approaching 10% higher to 172.5p. So what’s the news?

Good news travels fast, bad news is always delayed and that brings us to the delays from Supply@ME Capital (SYME) in buying the loss-making, sub-scale, Singapore-based joke fund manager Tradeflow and in publishing its results.

I hope to do a regular bearcast later but I am away on family business for most of the day so cannot guarantee it. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy left field macro and personal musings on life.

Hello, Share Scramblers. With some unwelcome dips in Footsie shares at the moment, perhaps we might look to smaller cap merchants in the hopes of making some money. Allow me to bring to your attention to Ilika (IKA). This is another company hoping to make hay out of alternative energy.

I start with the frustrations of a visit to Tesco (TSCO) Wrexham. Piss poor customer service. Then I look at Manolete (MANO) where I smell more trouble ahead. Then I move onto bull market madness and how it will end in tears for my mother-in-law, Elon Musk, Tesla, Bitcoin, Jonathan Bixby, Mike Edwards, NFT Investments, Clarify Pharma, Argo Blockchain (ARB), Novum Securities and Uncle Tom Cobley and all.

This morning’s announcement of a £241 million fundraise by fully-listed Kier Group (KIE) comes as no surprise to me in the wake of last month’s FY20 numbers which showed a company technically insolvent as net current assets were MINUS £297.5 million. Time for some Ouzo…..

Shares in PHSC plc (PHSC), a “provider of health, safety, hygiene and environmental consultancy services and security solutions”, are currently more than 20% higher today at 17p on the back of “Trading Update” and “Commencement of Share Buyback Programme” announcements. Of investment interest?…

After years of executive greed and value destruction, Bahamas Petroleum (BPC) tried one last roll of the dice on April 23 with an open offer at just 0.35p but I wonder whether there are growing signs that this is failing?