Forterra (FORT) has updated including “since our announcement of 28 April 2020, we have been encouraged by a gradual increase in despatches as our customers reopened their operations” and that it “does not have any present intention to draw upon” the Covid Corporate Financing Facility for which it has been confirmed as eligible – and the shares have currently responded to 220p, 5.5% higher...

And now from Wales, by just 30 yards, it is my new, I hope, weekly show. This costs 99p per episode to access and you can either listen or watch very sparky interviews with bear raider Matt Earl with Boohoo (BOO) centre stage, Aidan Bishop of Big Dish (DISH) and Bluebird Merchant (BMV) and myself explaining why Purplebricks (PURP) is a zero. You can access the show HERE

To watch the first show featuring bear raider Lucian Miers, mining boss Colin Bird and myself with a devastating expose of Novacyt (NCYT) go HERE

AIM-listed worthless and Covid-bandwagon POS Catenae updated the market this morning with three Holding in Company RNSs. There are a few lessons to learn…..!

At every step the last few days have seen Powerhouse Energy (PHE) show everything that is wrong with life among the dregs of the AIM Casino.  Today a new chapter but as a reminder....

Early this year we showed the Shorted AIM shares at the start of 2020. How's the performance as at the end of May? (those in bold remain from 2019)...

Writer Chris Temple expects a big uranium rally as many things are happening with uranium behind the scenes. Past policies have hindered the US standing in the uranium industry, and, Chris says, that President Trump is now attempting to correct those policies. The coming supply changes could be opportunities for prudent investors.

On several occasions in the last couple of months, our venerable Sheriff has explained his view that commercial property is uninvestable on either a short term or long term view and that although the share price of British Land (BLND) and Land Securities (LAND) stand at a big discount to their NAV, the real value is substantially lower. The purpose of this note is to put the alternative view. 

You know I love basic, but worthy, products and have rhapsodised about the brick market before as pricing power is decent, assisted by a continuing structural demand for houses due to a rising population (don't get me started though on housebuilder profitability levels and 'help to buy' style market distortions!). However...

Hello, Share Finders. One of the mysteries about the effect on the market of the pestilence concerns gold. Why has it not risen a lot higher? After all, don't we seek refuge in the yellow metal when shares and currencies let us down in a crisis? True, some gold shares have risen. My own investment in Centamin (CEY) has recovered all my earlier paper losses, for example. But on the whole, gold prices have not rocketed as we might have expected...

An old friend of mine tipped me the shares of silver miner Hochschild Mining (HOC) at around 70p in late 2008 as the GFC panic was at its peak. When I asked him about the prospects for silver he appeared to be only vaguely aware that this was its game...

Today's training walk is with my daughter and is almost 12 miles. In burning heat and with my MAGA cap on which us luck. Please donate to Woodlarks here. In today's show I warn you that you MUST sell all the corona testing plays NOW. Then I look at Intu (INTU) - a great selling opportunity - and then at one of my worst share tips & investments for which I apologise to all, Wishbone Gold (WSBN).

“Driver Group plc (DRV), the global professional services consultancy to the construction and engineering industries, today announces that its Group Chief Executive Officer, Gordon Wilkinson, has left the Company with effect from 31 May 2020 by mutual agreement and with the good wishes of the Board and senior executive team.” Hmmm...

A “Trading Statement” from Xaar (XAR) including “overall trading in the first four months of the new financial year has been in line with the expectation we established before the Covid-19 outbreak”… but the shares have responded currently approaching 5% lower towards 60p...

Green on the screen for the markets, but little to inspire in terms of at-the-margin corporate news. The Tesco (TSCO) CFO retirement is very orderly (and not happening until next year in any case), whilst I see the hope of Intu Properties (INTU) that it will collect £310 million of rent this year. Apparently that this is ‘only’ 37% worse than last year is good news...hence a short squeeze today. Good luck to those playing that. My view remains that the banks have a choice between going full zombie on it...or forcing it into administration and salvaging what they can. Today I am going to write about Electrocomponents (ECM)...

In April and May we were at peak Covid hysteria. Across the world authorities like the disgraced Public Health England which had shamed themselves by having limited supplies of PPE and other items hastened to order as many Covid tests as they could. Now they are well stocked by testing at way under capacity. So what is going on and why should Novacyt (NCYT) care.

Early this year we showed the top shorted London-listed shares at the start of 2020. How's the performance as at the end of May? (those in bold remain from 2019)...

Between June and December 2016, I commented extensively in a series of article on the greed of William Dewsall, the CEO of Gable Insurance Holdings Inc, who extracted over £15 million in cash from the Group and its dire prospects, which to remind readers ended up being worthless when its insurance subsidiary company was placed into administration on 17 November 2016. Natch Nomad and broker Zeus and the oxymorons at AIM Regulation did nothing until it was too late.

Having failed to cure cancer, almost out of cash ValiRx (VAL) needs another story to ramp to allow its low-life brokers Peterhouse to get another discounted placing away to its spivvy flipper mates. Ahoy is that a bandwagon I see in the distance?  Yes it is the Covid Express. Time to jump aboard.

Hello, Share Threshers. It’s with a heavy heart that a company I’ve long supported and which has made me quite a profit over many years, is now on my ‘probably sell soon’ list. The company is Photo-Me (PHTM)...

AIM-listed Rurelec (RUR), the shambles of a carcass left behind by Peter Earle, has offered up its FY19 results this morning and the news is almost good. Actually, compared to the technically insolvent POS its current management inherited, it is something of a miracle just because it has survived so long...