Hello, Share Turners. As the Iranian question continues to dominate world news, the possibility of tougher US sanctions keeps the price of Brent crude spiralling upwards. Which is keeping the Footsie and the Dow buoyant, too. Good for share shifters like us, but sadly, bad for world peace.
Hello Share Bashers. I’ve been banging on about how the gushing price of oil should make us think again about investing in oilers. The cost of Brent Crude is up again as I write. Of course, the likes of Shell (RDSA) and BP (BP.) immediately spring to mind. But the smaller producers will benefit, too. Especially as many of them have still to recover from a pounding from the oil price tanking.
Trinity Exploration (TRIN) has confirmed that it has had bid approaches and analyst Zac Phillips at SP Angel, the City's most feared oil guru, has suggested who may be at the table. But shareholders shouldn't get too excited as they will get screwed whatever happens.
For months and months Trinity Exploration (TRIN) has been in default on loans taken out with Citibank. Investors who declined to sell the worthless shares seemed to believe the truism that "If you owe the bank $1 you are in trouble, if you owe $1 million the bank is in trouble" as Citibank - which was actually owed $13 million declined to pull the plug. Until today. Instead of the normal weekly rollover announcement we are told:
It is in default on its loans but the banks keep putting off the day they pull the plug. Today the company admitted that its attempts to sell its assets had not yet secured any firm offers. Well knock me down with a feather boa sailor, quell fecking surprise. But now it gets worse. Top analyst Zac Phillips, a man who was once seen as the Geoffrey Howe of hydrocarbon analysis but who is rapidly become an attack shark, flags up a massive black hole of a tax liability for Trinity Exploration (TRIN). Writing in the SP Angel morning note today Jaws warns:









