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The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #228

It's time for the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz.. There are no prizes! And remember, no Googling!

Professor

Visual Aid: GDP Growth Forecasts by Country in 2024

Resilient GDP growth and falling inflation are spurring a brighter outlook for 2024, although cautions remain across global economies. As countries around the world maneuver a complex landscape, they are faced with a scope of risks that include inflationary spikes, rising debt loads, and dwindling consumer savings.

Gold
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The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Holds The Line……Yawn!

The yellow stuff is still going nowhere fast. This week saw a dip below $2,000 and then a recovery to close at $2,013: a good test of $2,000 but ultimately Gold remains wedged between $2,000 and $2,080 – the big yawn continues.
Top-10

Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending 17 February

Here are the most read articles and the most listened-to Bearcasts over the past seven days. The most read non-Quiz, non-Tom article last week is Nigel Somerville with The View From The Montana Log-Cabin: The Big Gold Yawn Continues at No 12 or No19 including Bearcasts. 

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: making Bara Brith, death threat for the Lemming & I really warm to buying high yield insurers and banks

I start with the Bara Brith, explaining what it is that Joshua and I have made and why. Photos tomorrow. Then it is onto insurers lie Legal & General (LGEN) as well as banks like NatWest (NWG) and, citing a real expert, I explain why I am increasingly tempted. Then it is onto the death threat for the Lemming Investor. It is to do with Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) and the perp is almost certainly one of those emboldened by Giles Balleny at Cavendish (CAV) who should now be truly ashamed for that. It makes me consider what Britain is becoming and how, if my circumstances were different, I'd be emigrating and will encourage all my kids to do just that. 
Crime-Scene
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Crime does not pay? Really. Just 11 months inside for insider dealing and fraud for Mohammed Zina of Goldman Sachs

The insider dealer here, Mohammed Zina, was young but abused his position at Goldman Sachs to engage in multiple cases of insider dealing with money he obtained fraudulently with home loans from Tesco. Zina was a rank amateur crook as you can see below. However..
RCDO
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Ricardo plc – a value Buy following trading update?...

Shares in environmental and engineering consulting company Ricardo plc (RCDO) commenced 2024 by rising back towards 500p having exceeded 600p in the prior year. They are now though back to some way below such levels, but a recent trading update sees us consider that they can exceed 600p again and, with a useful dividend whilst we wait for capital gains, they are a Buy.
Clown
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John Lewis Staff magazine shocker: imagine working in this woke gulag

Due to its serial failures under Dame Sharon White, c11,000 employees (partners) at John Lewis will be getting their P45s over the next couple of years. At least they will miss the torture of the inhouse staff magazine "Identity," a 32 page publication celebrating LGBTQ history month sent to all 70,000 (current) staff. I bring you a competition from this publication and you will be horrified.
ZTF
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Zotefoams – “latest sustainable innovation” update, a trials potential excitement soon Buy

Materials technology company Zotefoams (ZTF) has issued an update on its latest sustainable innovation, ReZorce Circular Packaging, and that it has joined independent authority, RECOUP. What of this news?
REAT
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Sewage on the Loose? Who You Gonna Call? This Polished Cleaning Outfit is on the Way Up, a penny share buy to gain 50%

Hello Share Mates. Have you ever stopped to consider how much the act of cleaning steals from modern life. Nobody likes talking about it, but it has to be done. I’ve started my spring cleaning early and begrudge every bit of it. But it got me thinking about a cleaning company called React (REAT).
Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: How UKOG can be saved and should I be buying NatWest shares, I am sorely tempted

In today's bearcast I look at Versarien (VRS), Invinity Energy (IES)  a change of stance - Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), Baron Oil (BOIL) and NatWest Group (NWG).
DIA
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Dialight – reckons after 10 years as a director of the company, CEO and board both decided on the same day that the CEO would leave!

Considering itself a “global leader in sustainable LED lighting for industrial applications”, Dialight (DIA) has announced a CEO change with non-executive director Steve Blair to now become CEO as “by mutual agreement with the board, Fariyal Khanbabi has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the company with immediate effect”. So the board and Fariyal both just decided, after 10 years as a board director, on the same day that Fariyal would leave did they?!
SALT
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Microsalt: wonder IPO or ludicrous price?

Microsalt (SALT) tried to raise £10-15 million ahead of an IPO last October but for some unexplained reason, Nomad Zeus postponed the IPO. On 1 February it joined the AIM sewer after raising £3.15 million gross (£2.5 million net) at 43p giving an £18.5 million valuation. Today, after announcing what it termed a “vital” deal earlier this week, the shares are 112.5p so valuing it at just over £48 million. Really?
XPP
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XP Power – from “expect that market conditions will improve as the year progresses” to “significantly below market expectations” in just 5 weeks!

An 11th January trading update from XP Power (XPP) which, not-modestly, describes itself as “one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of critical power control solutions for the Industrial Technology, Healthcare and Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment sectors”, stated that the company continued to expect 2024 “market conditions will improve as the year progresses… our performance will be supported by the actions taken to reduce our cost base and we will continue to respond decisively to market conditions as they evolve. We will provide a further update and outlook with our full year results announcement”. So what now already another “Trading Update”, despite the full year results announcement not scheduled for until March 5th?
UKOG
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UK Oil & Gas – as we await share consolidation what price the next bailout placing? And where does this leave Dave Lenigas and Pennpetro?

I write as UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) holds aa GM to approve a share consolidation. Like so many penny dreadfuls its shares have collapsed below par value of just 0.01p and it must therefore undertake a capital reorganization slashing par to just 0.0001p to allow it to issue even more worthless confetti. And boy does it need to issue shares.
Black-Swan

Video: Poking Bears And Black Swans

Analyst Dave Kranzler has a number of stark warnings of doom for stockmarket bulls but starts this podcast with a discussion of the Tucker Carlson Vladimir Putin interview, something I shall be covering later in my next Russia/Ukraine podcast.
JLP
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Jubilee Metals – Zambia copper expansion progress, Buy

Jubilee Metals (JLP) has issued an update on its copper expansion in Zambia, including that it “is well on track of achieving its initial target of 25,000 tonnes of copper per annum”.
SYME
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Letter to the FCA: What is stopping you forcing a statement from the Supply@ME Capital fraud?

Following the collapse in the share price of sister company Dispensa (DISP) following advisor auditor resignations and plans for a delisting, surely even the woke dullards at the FCA must be getting worried about Supply@ME Capital (SYME), another joke admission to the Standard list thanks to the incompetence of er…..the FCA. I have dropped it a note regarding a January 31 deadline.
MTW
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Mattioli Woods – interims, growth and recovery Buy

Wealth and asset management company Mattioli Woods (MTW) has announced its results for its half-year ended 30th November 2023 and that it is well positioned to take advantage of the growth opportunities in the UK wealth market.
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