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TRIUMPH: Financial Reporting Council says Tom Winnifrith complaint saw £800m First Derivatives have to alter its accounting policies

To those who say that ShareProphets is a joke site run by a fool or a knave, stick this letter below from the Financial Reporting Council where the sun don't shine. Yet again the FRC is marking my homework with A*s.  To those cretins on the Bullettin Boards who abuse me daily I ask: when was the last time you got a regulator to force an £800 million market cap company to change its, overly aggressive and misleading, accounting policies? Ouzo time yet again for the Sheriff of AIM. 

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CloudCall – “a high degree of confidence that… on-track to meet its future goals”… so why the share price decline?

“CloudCall (AIM: CALL), a leading cloud-based software business that integrates communications technology with Customer Relationship Management platforms, announces the following trading update for the six months ended 30th June 2019”. Hmmm – despite late March-announced results including “it is encouraging to see early indications of the impact those investments will make in the future coming through towards the end of the year… pleased to report a strong start to 2019”, not ‘pleased to announce’?...

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Chavtastic! Burberry excites the Chinese and social media

I like to think I have a little bit of knowledge about a wide range of matters but if I ever offer fashion advice on this page, then I really think you should ignore it. Fortunately my share-based love for Burberry (BRBY) has always been centred on those twin mega themes of the internet and China, rather than the new looks being developed by Riccardo Tisci and his team…

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Shenanigans at Conroy Gold and Karelian Diamonds

Two RNSs yesterday from AIM-listed Conroy Gold and Natural Resources (CGNR) and its under-fire little brother, AIM-listed Karelian Diamond Resources (KDR), raised my eyebrows...

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Open Orphan - time to bank a near 300% profit?

We tipped Open Orphan (ORPH) at a 2p offer in January when it was known as Venn Life Sciences. There has been a transformative RTO since and we told you to hang on. Today the shares are 7.9p to sell...

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Oooh err MRS, that was a fecking whitewash

In today's bearcast I look at Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG), Management Resource Solutions (MRS), the syphillitic welfare funded client of Cupid (CUP), Albert Technologies (ALB), Optibiotix (OPTI) and Dev Clever (DEV).

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Thoughts On Thomas Cook & Kier

I suggested selling Thomas Cook (TCG) back in May at 13p and at 5p today the company is still valued at £75 million. Given Friday’s announcement of the inevitable debt for equity swap, which “is not the outcome any of us wanted for our shareholders”, this is still far too high as will become apparent when the details are released...

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Redemptions Watch: Neil Woodford’s Income Focus Fund trickles on down

This morning’s data from Morningstar shows that Neil Woodford's Income Focus Fund dropped 0.29% in NAV per unit on the first trading day of this week.

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You'll Need to Be Brave to Invest in this Gold Explorer - But You Never Know...

Hello, Share Travellers. Though the Footsie is moving up, there’s scant news to keep things bubbling along even faster. As usual, at this time of year, more traders are on hols with their kids and volumes go down. So by way of a change, may I bring to your attention a gold explorer in Australia. Sounds risky - and of course it jolly well is...

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Vela Technologies – portfolio updates reinforce clear upside potential

An Update re. Interbit Ltd” has now followed an “Update re. Vibe Group Holdings Limited” and “Update re. WeShop Limited” from Vela Technologies (VELA)…

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Bonmarche – offer acceptances reached mean it’s de-listing ahoy!

Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group owner Philip Day’s Spectre Holdings has updated on Bonmarché (BON) – including of “valid acceptances under the offer, in respect of a total of 46,524,803 Bonmarché shares, representing approximately 93.0 per cent. of the existing issued ordinary share capital of Bonmarché”

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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: £2m coke & hookers money for the City boys, shareholders lose 80% - another day on the AIM Casino

In today's bearcast I look forward to the new show on Wednesday which will be half recorded by the end of today. I cover Mortice (MORT) a tale of shareholder woe friom the AIM Cesspit, Kier (KIE), Dev Clever (DEV), Anglo African Oil & Gas (SCUM), Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG) and Mobile Streams (MOS), where I study what happens to cashflow when a company is near to death and the red flag gaps in today's trading statement.

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Mobile Streams – trading update, forget the potential business development opportunities!...

Mobile Streams (MOS) has updated including in Argentina “the board are now looking to renew commercial activities with previous customers” and “in Mexico, actions have been taken in order to re-launch the commercial operation with Telcel, the largest carrier in Mexico”. However…

ROSE
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Rose Petroleum – Lucky Escape!

Rose Petroleum (ROSE) has had a rather interesting year so far in bringing in new capital and senior management. RNS statements caused real concern earlier this year, as Tom noted. What caught my eye was just how close the company came to having David Sefton and James Berwick sat on the board. As Tom discusses today, given what has happened at Anglo African Oil and Gas (AAOG) it is perhaps very fortunate for Rose shareholders this plan fell apart!

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: More dissembling from the bullshit merchant David Sefton of AAOG

There is a new RNS out today which begs massive questions which the company refuses to answer. And there is still the matter of the placing at 5.2p and more questions about whether Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG) will get that away in light of what it claimed on Friday. This stock is now utterly toxic and uninvestable at 4p. Enjoy.

Newsboy
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GlaxoSmithKline & Persimmon shareholders take note: it is all about where you are going

I asked back in January whether GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) wanted a 'yes man' new chair in order to push through the CEO's plan to split the business (and pursue some expensive-sounding deals on the consumer side). The share has pushed up a pound or so since then, so the lack of clarity on this question has not been a huge issue overhanging the stock but we have a little bit more insight on this issue - with reports that the company is close to hiring Jonathan Symonds, a real pharma sector insider with experience at AstraZeneca (AZN) and Novartis among others…

PTSG
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PWC Leeds office in the soup for a third time – PTSG and the £540k payments to CEO

The other day the Leeds office of PWC was fined heavily and slammed by the FRC for professional negligence in the case of not spotting accounting fraud at Redcentric (RCN). It was the second such notice in two years for PWC Leeds and the office is on a warning. Thus I am sorry to say but it is in the soup again over the massive undeclared payments going, over many years, to the CEO of Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG), Mr Paul Teasdale, which I exposed in full on Saturday HERE. Now here is why PWC is in the soup…

US-Dollar

David Scott has a very bad day in Congress

A number of seasoned professional (as detailed here over the many past weeks) feel markets are ripe for a sudden and painful rollover in bonds and stocks. My assessment is that the likely trigger for a market shock will be a “no-see-em”, something so obviously hidden in plain sight it catches us completely and painfully...

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Try These Cybermen if You Think Computer Security is a Great Business to Be in

Hello Share Crumplers. There is real anxiety in the business world about cybersecurity. Especially as the company which owns British Airways has been fined a staggering £183 million over hackers raiding its files. That seems to be a bit unfair, as these varlets seem to be one step ahead these days. It’s because of a change of law which has turned small fines for this kind of thing into huge ones.

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