Strip Tinning (STG) “is pleased to announce it has secured a significant new 5 year nomination with BMW for its Glazing division, underlining Strip Tinning's position as a leading supplier of specialist connectors to the Glazing sector for all classes of automotive vehicles manufactured worldwide”. With the shares currently responding more than 6% higher to 105p, just how “significant” is the new nomination?

Hello Share Takers. I’ve got just two words to say to you. Praseodymium and neodymium. They are metals and pretty rare ones at that. The biggest source of them is a company called Rainbow Rare Earths (RBW). What can you make with this pair of metals? NdPr Oxide, that’s what.

Hello, Share Folks. As I write, the oil price has reached the giddy height of $75 a barrel. Last November it was only about $20. The current high level is a main cause of inflation in Blighty. And inflation is the enemy of share prices everywhere. However, there is one sector which benefits most from a lofty oil price. And that of course is the one comprising big oil producers like BP (BP.) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA). So why have the share values of these giants only been treading water for the last few months?

Hello, Share Scrapers. The oil price is going through the roof. Not the $120 a barrel that it once reached, but well above the $70 mark now. That won’t please motorists, but it should certainly cheer share shifters like us. A rising oil price usually means a similarly-inclined Footsie, but for holders of big oil shares it’s even better news.

Pensana (PRE) – now to be listed solely in London after giving notice to de-list in Australia - is progressing towards establishing the world’s first fully sustainable mine to magnet metal supply chain – materials for emerging industries including electric vehicles and wind turbines. The shares reached 120p early this year, since when the company has announced further progress towards its mine-to-magnet metal goal, but the shares are now lower…

Previously writing on manufacturer of carbon fibre reinforced ceramic automotive brake discs Surface Transforms (SCE), earlier this month I concluded with the shares at 53p that there looks interesting future potential here, but ahead of further balance sheet and revenue detail (results expected in May) and with the already more than £80 million market cap, I currently continue to avoid. Now a placing and proposed open offer…

Hello Share Takers. We all know there’s a huge change coming over the way we get from A to B. We can tell from the surge of adverts on TV that the age of petrol cars is coming to an end after more than a century. And it’s not just cars undergoing the change. Also being urgently electrified are lorries, buses and trains…

Previously writing on Trackwise Designs (TWD), with the shares below 90p I questioned recent fundraising “provision of growth working capital”… or keep-the-lights on funds? – concluding I suggest trading and funding challenges mean this currently still a bargepole / sell. Today a “Fundraising and Open Offer” and the shares down in response – but to a current around 300p, so what’s happened here? Should Tom sack me this weekend?

Hello, Share Swampers. The world is changing. And part of the move is away from fossil fuels, including petrol. So it makes sense for armchair tycoons like us to look for companies in tune with this growing trend. Cadence Minerals (KDNC) is one such firm...

Lots and lots of numbers out today but something that really stuck out to me was the quarter one update from Aston Martin Lagonda (AML), which floated less than a year ago above 1800p a share...and today is on sale only for a few percent above 800p a share. Now that is ugly from anyone's perspective…

Less than two years ago provider of infrastructure services to the UK housebuilding and commercial sectors, Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS) was, at 185p per share, “delighted to announce the successful completion of our IPO on the AIM Market… as a quoted company we look forward to the future with confidence”. The company’s December 2018-announced results were headlined “Delivery of profits in line with management expectations and strong order book provides forward earnings visibility” – and now a “Trading Update and Notice of Results”…