I have I guest in this week's show which is sponsored by Open Orphan PLC (ORPH) and it is the company's chairman Cathal Friel. I think I gave him a hard time on certain matters but I came away a very happy shareholder. I discuss Coronavirus and the market crash and why I would now be a selective buyer of blue chips right now. But i accept facts have changed and in that light I also cover 11 stocks which could well be zeros and I explain why. If you like this podcast and can't wait seven days for more of the same and are tired of being a cheapskate you should listen to my Bearcast and enjoy our cracking writen exposes and analysis every day HERE.

Self-styled “growth and turnaround investment company” Volvere (VLE) has updated including it is “still achieving an encouraging level of output” and “is in a strong financial position, with significant cash resources”…

I start with a few comments on Coronavirus as more evidence emerges HERE of why the economy wrecking Government lockdown is such complete madness. It reminds me of an incident around 2000 years ago today when the mob persuaded a leader to adopt a policy not backed up by the facts. I then look at why Roger Lawson is so utterly wrong about Carson Block of Muddy Waters and should apologise. Finally I discuss the behaviour of folks like Alison Rose of NatWest in this crisis. Shocking and unethical maybe but would you not do the same?

Shares in Touchstar (TST), a tip earlier this year, fell below 30p last month but have currently recovered back above this level, including following an “Update on trading and impact of Coronavirus”…

Investor Lawrence Lepard claims that  people are gradually waking up to what is happening. Governments can’t create credit forever without consequence, and we are now witnessing the end of that system. In the space of only six weeks, we have seen stunning moves and government actions. Eventually, people will consider currency to be an inadequate means of storing wealth.

Concepta (CPT) has announced that it has conditionally, including on shareholders approval, raised a gross £1.9 million (with FIML, a company owned by a trust whose beneficiaries are the dependants of Tom Winnifrith, taking part) to “provide us with a solid platform from which to drive the commercial success of our flagship self-test fertility test myLotus ®”, with CEO Penny McCormick emphasising “I remain confident that we have a business with substantial upside opportunity and these funds will allow us to deliver upon its potential”…

We're inviting you to send pictures in of what you see out of your window and/or of your new workspace. Just email them to editorial@shareprophets.com . Today, we're looking at the view of our own Peter Brailey in the Cotswolds.

From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2019 and thus far in 2020 (by net short position %, those in bold not on the list at the start of 2020) – and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

Hello, Share Trundlers. A few days ago, I suggested a small medical pioneer might see a share rise because of its association with a substitute for human antibodies. This proved to be a correct assumption as the share has doubled since then.

As an “oil and gas production, development and exploration company”, shares in San Leon Energy (SLE) are down from the levels - in its case approaching 30p - of earlier this year. Now announcements of “Directorate Change” and also “Cash Receipt of US$40 Million”…

I start by suggesting you read about the clownish Emma Priestley, AIM's most incompetent boss HERE. Then I take great joy from the news that Channel 4 is having to make big cost cuts, but comment on its moral bankruptcy in taking state aid while still paying stars a packet and also what this tells us about companies such as Audioboom (BOOM). I look at the latest daft idea from my local Tory MP, Sarah Atherton, about the taxpayer funding a dying industry. I discuss a chat with Paul Jourdan of Amati, why I think house prices will crash but the bull case for shares. I look at the new dot.com bubble, the Corona bubble discussing, inter alia, Novacyt (NCYT), Tiziana (TILS) and Omega Diagnostics (ODX).

“Van Elle Holdings plc (AIM: VANL), a leading UK geotechnical engineering company offering a wide range of ground engineering techniques and services to customers in a variety of UK construction end markets, announces that further to its COVID-19 update announced on 26 March 2020, the company is undertaking a placing to raise gross proceeds of approximately £6.67 million”. The shares are currently circa 6% lower in response…

Kosmos Energy (KOS) obtained a secondary listed on the London market in 2017, having been listed on the NYSE for some years. It’s not one I see often discussed on any social media platform and seems to me to just fly under the radar. The share price fell off a cliff in February tracking the oil price down. I have been watching this company for some time and can now see long term high risk value following the RNS yesterday updating on RBL and project timings.

Cosmetics supplier Warpaint London (W7L) has updated including it “has undertaken a number of significant cost cutting measures... Christmas order book… continues to build… the board believes that, even if the current lockdown measures were to remain in place until the end of the year, the group has the financial strength to withstand a disruption to its activities until at least the end of 2020 without the need to seek any additional funding”. The shares have currently responded to 45p, more than 5% lower…

Given that fully-listed Finablr (FIN) is from the house of Shetty that gave us the now - or soon to be - defunct NMC Health (NMC), it is a surprise that Dr Shetty remains co-chairman having been forced out of the door at NMC amid a series of undisclosed share dealings and the subsequent discovery of undisclosed cheques, NMC being left on the hook for its suppliers loans and bank balances which did not match its accounts. And of course Finablr has been in a spot of bother already...

You may recall that Tom and I had a conversation back in October about Diageo (DGE) and how this loved-up bond proxy captured everything that was wrong about consensus investing. Naturally, shareholders who had followed our lead and sold could buy back today at a considerable discount to the share price back then...however what I like to think we highlighted was that the cosy consensus that such global consumer behemoths were always and everywhere a core portfolio holding is far from obvious…

NMC Health (NMC) announced late yesterday that it was “not in a position” to oppose successfully the court application by Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank to have the company placed into administration at today’s hearing. In other words it is game over...

A 17th March “COVID-19 update” from cinema group Everyman Media (EMAN) stated “the group has significant headroom in its loan facility and is in dialogue with its lenders on covenants to maintain liquidity through this period of uncertainty”. Now “the company has conditionally placed 17,500,000 ordinary shares at the placing price of 100 pence per ordinary share… together with our existing funding arrangements, this placing significantly strengthens our balance sheet providing further working capital and allows us to pick up where we left off”. Hmmm...

We're inviting you to send pictures in of what you see out of your window and/or of your new workspace. Just email them to editorial@shareprophets.com . Today, we're looking at the view of Stuart in Pendle Hill, North East Lancashire.

Hello, Share Collectors. Today’s choice is probably the last in my humble series of medical companies possibly to see fast-escalating share prices once the crisis is over. This is one of the biggest pharmas directly involved in the fight against the outbreak. I don’t hold shares in AstraZeneca (AZN), having chosen instead its big rival GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), but my finger will hover on the buy button once the outbreak peak is over...