Having warned in September interims that “the group remains at risk unless secure additional finance is achieved”, organic wastes technology group TEG (TEG) has now requested the suspension of trading of its shares “pending clarity on its financial position”.

Before last night's four presentations at the ShareProphets Seminar - videos of which will appear later - I made a few comments about the Westminster Group (WSG) ebola appeal. All this week - Hop-tu-naa week - at Real Man Pizza in Clerkenwell we will be donating 20p per pizza sold to the appeal and I hope that others will chip in. Details of the appeal can be found HERE

Last week a blameless salesman at ADVFN booked a marketing solus for us for Pacific Tycoon. The Asian scammers were prepared to pay great money so we would have a big payday on it. But when I learned about this I told our partners at ADVFN that if that mailing was sent to our readers I would resign. And so it was pulled. However much money we are offered we will not expose you to folks who are just out and out criminals.

Dowgate, house broker to John Teeling lead Irish zinc play Connemara Mining (CON) has published a detailed research note on the company arguing that at 1.5p the shares are a buy. Analyst Jason Robertson writes:

Imagination Technologies (IMG) share price has been showing signs of strength again; so where are we heading next in this roller coaster technology share which pays no dividend?  

Hot on the heels of the Sunkar Resources (SKR) shareholder wipeout, another Kazakh tale of woe on AIM is reaching its pitiful conclusion. Max Petroleum (MXP) really hasn’t received the attention it deserves from this site. This is yet another story from AIM’s resource sector of wanton value destruction and lost shareholder fortunes, amounting to many millions of pounds. By any measure, this company has been an unmitigated disaster, culminating in a crescendo of dire news. 

Having earlier this month received a notice from Mike Ashley (the Sports Direct founder and a shareholder in the company) requiring it to call a General Meeting with resolutions for the removal of CEO Graham Wallace and fellow director Philip Nash, Rangers International Football Club plc (RFC) announced on Friday that Nash had resigned and has now announced that it has agreed a £2 million credit facility with Ashley and that Wallace has also resigned. The following updates on these further additions to the extraordinary goings on since the company’s 2012 AIM admission.

Hello Share Shapers. They say that it's the payment of dividends, rather than striking it lucky occasionally, that leads to making real money on the Stock Exchange.

When we started BearCasts some listeners complained they could not access them on their PCs. So we changed formats. Group one are now happy. Now some folks who could hear the old format cannot hear the new one. Aaaaagh. Anyhow, we will get there.

Thankfully all the UK Banks have passed their stress tests, however Lloyds only just managed to. The tests were implemented by the European Central Bank, and were designed to see if they could cope with a three year downturn. 130 banks in all were tested, with 25 failing, a large proportion of which were Italian. Monte dei Paschi was a notable Italian failure, and its shares have tumbled down 20% today. Regulators have banned all short selling of its stock.

In a wide ranging podcast today I start by revealing that I am trying to nail 3 former AIM CEOs who simply stole money from their company's. More on that later. I also cover Touchstone Gold, Synectics, Range Resources, Concha, Westminster Group and more.

Armadale Capital (ACP) may be long out of favour with investors these days, but key director Justin Lewis is savouring a new scooping study which gives the AIM-quoted company’s Mpokoto gold project in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich Katanga province a net present value of $55.3 million(£34.5 million), ten times Armadale’s present stockmarket tag of £3.3 million.

Shares in surveillance technology company Synectics plc (SNX) currently trade more than 30% lower, at 220p, on the back of an announcement that it “expects to incur an underlying loss for the full financial year” as “underlying profit for the second half of the financial year ending 30 November 2014 will be significantly below market expectations of £5 million, though still positive”. Is the severity of the downward share price lurch justified?

One of the more surprising tweets I received last week was from a lady in the grim north called Kate  (@modelsforkate) who had for some time been a self-confessed Quindell (QPP) shareholder and did not like what I was writing so took nearly all her clothes off in protest and send out a tweet inviting me to “kiss her ass”. Whatever. It has subsequently emerged that Kate’s enthusiasm for Quenron might be influenced by the fact that she earns fat fees sending clients to its ambulance chasing whiplash and industrial deafness centres. But let’s still give Kate a platform. As such I bring you her selfie and invite you to post suitable captions below. Deadline midnight tonight?

Real Man is not unaware of the Ebola crisis occurring in West Africa. I see that some pompous arses object to my use of the phrase “I’d rather drink a pint of warm Ebola” than (buy Quindell shares etc.) but that is because the English language is a joyful tool allowing such illusions to make a point not the preserve of pompous self-righteous prats (see my tweet hate mail at the weekend).  As it happens we have a long relationship at the restaurant with our friends at Medicins Sans Frontieres. And as such we are delighted to support an emergency Ebola appeal launched today by Westminster Group (WSG) an AIM listed company operating in the Ebola heartlands.

The weekend caption contest threw up some cracking entries which you can see here.  But congratulations to the winner, larboulois, for:

Shares in Foxtons (FOXT) have been sliding for a while – the market anticipating that sooner or later London’s poshboy Estate Agent would serve up a profits warning. Last week it duly obliged but even at 158p post warning the shares remain a pretty safe short for Christmas.

Again what a cracking week have enjoyed from the Quenron (QPP) owning morons who post on Bulletin boards or tweet.  The sheer stupidity of these fools defies belief and you cannot help but laugh as you read their deranged thoughts, interspersed with a few posts from our own home grown prize loon Kebab/Kulbas/KB.  You can read the full list of fantastic entries HERE

Hello Share Pickers. So the all the big British banks passed the big stress test of the European Banking Authority. That's jolly good isn't it?

The next ShareProphets seminar is on Monday 27 October in Clerkenwell London and there are still five seats left. On the menu – other than free pizza – are four speakers of note. To book one of those remaining seats just email your name and address to kathy@shareprophets.com