UK 20:40 Friday, 23 October 2026
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For some reason I am in a good mood. Perhaps it is that some folks have the most useless lawyers on this planet! In this podcast I look at Afren, Coms and Transense Technology and all three raise wider issues other than their company specific woes.
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Comments
DUCK AND DIVE
Liquid lunch? Might be a plan to go on the wagon Tuesday night into Wednesday…
Daniel Victor
Weird sound,Tom.Perhaps you should try Audioboom !
Barford
Interesting bearcast as usual, but sounds like you were taken over by some demon after 4.30 mins talk about deep scary voice…. Barry White wud have been proud!!
KevinRTaylor
Ceteris Paribus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NHAWEtx7D0
We’re English Tom, it’s “set-er-us par-i-bus”!
Howey
Does 20%+ holding buy a seat on the board?
Be interesting to hear your thoughts on ADVFN RNS and how it may play. I see many get a seat with 20% holdings, that is what happened with WRN, RFC too
Stegrego
Something wrong with the audio on this as after about 5 mins in and to the end, you sound like Loud Grossman…..
MICHEAL
I do have a question, if I waited to buy Afren shares at say 1.5p and then after purchasing these share from HL, and 2 days later mr cooper and the Chinese have put a package together. What happens to the shares I brought 2 days ago?? 1.) do they become part of this new supposedly new shares. 2.) is it better to just wait until this whole business has been sorted. 3.) or get in when I feel the shares hit rock bottom and 2/3/5 maybe 10 years for recovery. Can someone clear this up for me please, because I am waiting patiently
Pugg1ey
Lloyd Grossman wants his voice back
AK47
Soo many people abused Waseem and the vast majority would end it, ‘we will remind you when the Afren shares are over 20p’. The ‘told you so’ mentality. The question is, where are these tossers now to apologise to him? These individuals should be banned from buying shares. They are totally deluded.
Jimbo
Michael,
It is far better to wait until the whole situation with Afren has been sorted. If you go jumping in now, it’s almost a certainty that you’ll lose your money..
Hope this helps.
MICHEAL
Thanks Jimbo, that’s good enough for me be patient and wait