Copper has remained volatile in recent weeks, but is still showing far more strength than we’ve seen in the last couple of years, and I think the upward trend will continue. There are still some concerns about a potential drop in demand, but at the same time we’re not seeing many new copper projects reaching production and I can see further shortages in supply going forwards, barring a worldwide economic meltdown.

Hello Share Triggers. In a long career of share-shifting, many people have looked down their noses at me. How can you be a church-goer, they scoff, and still make money on shares? For you to make dosh, someone else has to lose it. So it’s a kind of theft - another breach of the Ten Commandments.

Lucian Miers previously warned on BNN Technology (BNN) HERE and will update here in due course. But the following just takes a quick look at the numbers and placing the company has announced today...

In this video from the storming success that was the 2017 UK Investor Show, in the 'Dragon's Den' companies have a 60 second pitch to Britain's Buffett Nigel Wray, Tom Winnifrith and Steve Moore for three £1,000 investments. The second round features Nostra Terra (NTOG), PCG Entertainment (PCGE), Distil (DIS), Obtala (OBT), Anglo African Agriculture (AAAP), and FairFX (FFX). And make sure that you keep April 21 2018 free for next year's UK Investor Show.

Engineering and technology recruitment company, Gattaca (GATC) has updated that “the board has reviewed its outlook for the remainder of the year to 31 July 2017 and now believes that profits for the year will be approximately 10-15% below its prior expectations”. Uh oh…

Mixed emotions for me this week as it looks like one of the more entertaining stars of the Sub-Standard Shockers XI, Opera Investments (OPRA), may finally have done a decent looking deal with the Kibo Mining (KIBO) gold assets; however, it looks like it will be heading off for the sunnier climes of AIM as a result, leaving my squad ever so slightly weakened.

In this video from the storming success that was the 2017 UK Investor Show, Richard Poulden of PCG Entertainment (PCGE) is at the podium. And make sure that you keep April 21 2018 free for next year's UK Investor Show.

Under its death spiral funding package with Bracknor, AIM-listed Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) has to call an EGM to seek shareholder approval to reduce the nominal price of its shares (currently 25p) by at least half if the closing share price is below 110% of nominal (ie 27.5p) for ten consecutive trading days. And that brings us to the latest spoof director share purchase announced this morning (which hasn’t worked: the shares are down 4% last seen this morning).

Shares in Amryt Pharma (AMYT) have surged to 26p-26.5p so we are well up on the share tip price (18.4p offer) and within spitting distance of the 28p+ to sell target. But hang on tight pro tem...

Union Jack Oil (UJO) has noted an “Appeal & New Planning Application” announcement on the Wressle oil field (Union Jack: 15%, including 3.33% subject to approval from the Oil and Gas Authority) from operator Egdon Resources (EDR).

In this video from the storming success that was the 2017 UK Investor Show, Louis Coetzee, CEO of Kibo Mining (KIBO), is at the podium. And make sure that you keep April 21 2018 free for next year's UK Investor Show.

Yesterday afternoon AIM-listed, cash-crisis-hit Rurelec (RUR) announced that storm damage had hit its 50%-owned outfit in Argentina, Energia del Sur, resulting in a fire in a power switch which looks to have knocked out its 136 MW CCGT power plant in Southern Patagonia. But the storm was on 31 March: why did it take until 12 April to ‘fess up?

In this video from the storming success that was the 2017 UK Investor Show, Roderick McIllree, CEO of Bluejay Mining (JAY), is at the podium. And make sure that you keep April 21 2018 free for next year's UK Investor Show.

Hello Share Mulchers. Anyone fancy investing in palm oil? I thought not. It can get a jaundiced press for the effect it can have on gorillas and other animals that rely on palms. But it’s the general criticism that might lead you to research DekelOil (DKL).

It seems that despite bears not being universally popular, I'm not the only one who thinks that AIM-listed Frontera (FRR) is an out and out bargepole stock. In the wake of yesterday's ramparoonie (oops) highly informative RNS, the Twitterspere has seen a few comments - not least of which from Waseem Shakoor and investment house Jub Capital - sticking the knife in.

Hayward Tyler (HAYT) has announced £3.7 million of new order wins, emphasising these “in addition to those already announced in March as evidence of our ability to convert our strong pipeline into order intake”. Hmmm, this follows a profit warning as recently as 20th February though…

In this video from the storming success that was the 2017 UK Investor Show, Paul Johnson, CEO of Metal NRG (NEX: MNRG), is at the podium. And make sure that you keep April 21 2018 free for next year's UK Investor Show.

Kudos to Cynical Bear’s questioning whether a “Competition approvals” RNS last month from Sepura (SEPU) was really about competition approvals – it has now been announced that the Competition and Markets Authority is “to consider whether a public interest consideration is relevant to the acquisition as a result of Sepura's commercial arrangements with UK government entities”…

In this video from the storming success that was the 2017 UK Investor Show, Tom Winnifrith and Evil Knievil discuss 30 years of lawyer's letters and fighting fraud. And make sure that you keep April 21 2018 free for next year's UK Investor Show.

It is not just unrepentant former armed bank robbers who engaged in pump and dump. Even the "most respectable" City Nomads and brokers are, it seems, at it. Welcome to 24 hours in the world of Numis.