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IQE

The Footsie May Not Rise for much Longer - Get Ready to Sell

Hello Share Cringers. As a BBC current affairs producer for nearly all my working life, I thought its 24-hour news service was doomed to failure. How wrong, in the light of recent events, I was.

AVN
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Drowning in debt Avanti Coms takes on more debt, is classed as non investment grade & exposed for misleading (again)

You are drowning in debt so what to do? In this crazy world you take on more debt! and so Avanti Communications (AVN) today announced that it had secured a new $100 million debt facility. Read carefully and you will see what an absolute nightmare this news is.

STHR

SThree – trading update argues “solid base”, but what about the macro picture?

Shares in staffing business SThree (STHR) are currently trading higher, above 300p, on the back of a half-year trading update. However, they are still lower than the more than 330p reach earlier this year, so what’s the current story here?...

EUSP

EU Supply – framework agreement signed, but valuation merited?

Shares in e-procurement software provider, EU Supply (EUSP) are currently a further more than 17% higher, at 17p, on the back of a “Framework agreement signed” announcement. Hmmm, a framework agreement – so no specific financials then?...

Crime-Scene
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Fisking The Times & Standard Life as AIM is lambasted

The Times yesterday ran an article "Investors take aim at LSE’s mistrusted upstart - Stock exchange defends Alternative Investment Market but its critics are losing patience", which it painted as a major attack on AIM. In fact it appears to have found one new critic - Standard Life - which, having done its conkers on Fusionex (FXI) because its fund managers knew better than our writers here who issued repeated warnings, now seems to think AIM has a problem. On which fucking planet has Standard Life been for the past ten years?

ITQ
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InterQuest – trading warning, but the attempted robber barons admit “solid” longer term fundamentals

“Trading update” announcement from InterQuest (ITQ), a company subject to an attempted robber baron (Oops) management, buyout with a first closing date in less than a week. Hmmm...

MTR

Metal Tiger – news from Botswana and Thailand, soon to roar?

Metal Tiger (MTR) has updated on interests in Botswana and Thailand – with on the former CEO Michael McNeilly “excited by the strong mineralisation intersections in the geotechnical holes drilled to help plan the open pit design” and on the latter noting the project “not only warrants the further technical work required to commence an optimised reopening, but holds the potential for significant Mineral Resource increases and enhancement”...

AFPO
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African Potash: Crack out the ouzo, adviser Peterhouse quits it is game over

"Lyin' Chris Cleverley, fascist lawyers Memery Crystal,, NED Declan O'Brien,clueless accountants RSM Tenon, SA sleazebag MP Mark Simmonds, Phil Edmonds, Andrew Groves, we have beaten them all, we have beaten them all!. Lord Hain of sleaze, can you hear me? Lord Hain of sleaze ... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!" Yes I think we can now declare victory in the war against African Potash. It never ends well for frauds especially those who hire fascist lawyers to send wanker letters to The Sheriff of AIM.

CGNR
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Conroy Gold boardroom purge looks a certainty

On June 8th Conroy Gold and Natural Resources (CGNR) said that it had received a demand to hold a GM to clear out most of the existing board and replace them with Paul Johnson and Gervaise Heddle linked to Metal Tiger and large shareholder Patrick O'Sullivan. Since then silence.

Gold

A Tsunami of Selling in Gold Miners Is About to End

In this week's podcast from Palisade Capital Frank Holmes discusses how the GDXJ became just a buying index with no separation of value and little understanding of who was doing well fundamentally. The re-balancing has created a large uncertainty with five billion dollars initially moving into the space and now three billion dollars leaving it. This will affect many of the small and mid cap producers. The investment money is being reallocated to the big names like the Barricks, the Newmonts, and the Goldcorps of the world. Holmes argues that you should use this as an opportunity, as some of these stocks have been sold down indiscriminately even though they are reporting phenomenal fundamentals.

RBS

Och Aye. That Scottish Bank's Shares May Rise, Now Some Obstacles are Under Control

Hello Share Smirkers. Normally I favour Lloyds (LLOY) when commending banks to your further inspection. But progress on that bank’s share price has been hesitant on days when its rival RBS (RBS) motors ahead. Though of late, RBS has weakened too - a casualty of the political uncertainty which becomes even more uncertain as the days roll by.

FXI
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Fusionex - votes to delist: shares now 33p to sell - worthless:: CEO Teh talks horseshit, has Nomad quit?

Surprise surprise shareholders in Fusionex (FXI) voted to delist the shares from AIM. Management and stooges had the vote sown up anyway so won 85% to 15%. The shares will cease trading on 26 June. CEO Ivan Teh must have really pissed off the owners of 5.4 million shares who voted against.

JLP
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Jubilee Platinum continues to make progress: BUY

Shares in Jubilee Platinum (JLP) have taken a bit of a battering in recent months, but I can still see plenty of upside here on any sort of positive reversal in platinum prices, and it is also worth remembering that other platinum group metals have been more robust.

STAR

Starcom – shares soar on “Major Supply and Support Agreement”, but how ‘major’ is it?

Having been bearish on Starcom (STAR) – from with the shares at above 7p HERE and most recently HERE – I note the stock currently 50% higher today, at 2.25p, on the back of a “Major Supply and Support Agreement” announcement…

DFS

DFS – profit warning, but reckons growth expectations for next year are still “realistic”. Hmmm…

“Trading Update” announcement from DFS Furniture (DFS) includes that “we believe our expectations for the next financial year are realistic”. The shares are though currently more than 20% lower at around 200p, with the announcement also updating that “the trading environment has however recently weakened beyond our expectation, with significant declines in store footfall leading to a material reduction in customer orders”. Uh oh…

SEV
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Servision - (lack of) profits warning and surely market abuse & breach of AIM Rules?

Servision (SEV) the AIM listed POS has today slipped out a horrible calendar 2016 profits warning but the fact that it has waited five and a half months to do so is surely market abuse. AIM Regulations state that price sensitive information must be anounced as soon as it is known. How on earth can the company's hapless Nomad, Allenby, tolerate this state of play? Or does it not care as long as it is paid?

CPT
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House broker on Concepta - shares, now 11.875p, worth 22p

Shares in Concepta (CPT) trade at 11.875p mid this morning but are according to house broker Beaufort worth 22p. The house broker is biased but the note it has published is interesting for its - conservative  - updated forecasts. If the broker is right then in just over six months time these shares will be trading on a 1 year out PE of less than 6 which is insane for a growth play. Judge for yourself. we own shed loads of these shares are will not be selling at anywhere near this price.

COS

Collagen - More Good News but wait for July 11!

This 5.75p offer share tip has not covered us in glory...yet. Shares in Collagen (COS) are now 5.375p despite a decent trading update two months ago and now further news.

CERP
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LGO becomes Columbus Energy but is new boss Leo Koot the champion corporate wankspeak talker?

This evening new LEGO Energy (LGO) boss Leo Koot will host an analysts briefing in the City on the day the company changed its name to Columbus Energy (CERP). The company has upgraded its FD and a statement issued is exceedingly upbeat. For that, as a loyal shareholder, I am glad. But the statement also contains aboslute A grade corporate gibberish/bullshit. Who is responsible for what follows? Please do not say it is Leo.

Gagged
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Free Speech explained for the 9th time to abusive crackpot Simon Hodges

For the 9th time - the first perhaps for our many new readers - I feel the need to explain what free speech really means.  I do this for Simon Hodges, a poster here, who seems to think that we are obliged to approve & publish his comments  which are defamatory and in some cases just so unpleasant that I do wonder for his twisted little mind. Mr Hodges you can leave my wife and father out of it and may your soul burn in hell. Guess what: I am brave enough to write in my own name and I run the website so can say what i want. Mr Hodges, who being a worm tries to post anonymously, this is for you... 

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