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AVN
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Avanti Communications share suspension on December 30? New bond default?

Well here is an early Christmas present for all good bears, Avanti Communications (AVN) has sort of fessed up to the fact that its shares may be suspended from the AIM Casino on 30th December and that it may be facing a new bond default. Oh dear. If that is not a cue to sell as fast as you can, what is?

DGE

Here Comes Diageo, Riding Down Santa Rally Lane

Hello Share Sprinters. Are you ready for Christmas? Thought not. Even more important: are you geared up for the Santa rally?

POS

Plexus Holdings – AGM update; argues strong position for next cyclical upswing, but how far away’s that?

Shares in oil and gas engineering services company Plexus (POS) are currently more than 12.5% higher, at 73p, on the back of an “AGM Statement” which argues “with a strengthened balance sheet, a large wellhead inventory, an expanded suite of Plexus products, partners in strategically important territories, and a successful track record with a who's who of blue chip operators, Plexus is in a strong position to take advantage of and benefit from the next cyclical upswing”. Hmmm…

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - what is the ISDX lobster pot? ( my specialist subject)

After day six of the olive harvest I am shattered but it looks as if tomorrow may be the final day which means a late night at the press in Kambos, ouzo and no bearcast. You have been warned, the Sheriff may have the whole day off so tomorrow is a good day for shysters on the AIM casino to issue dodgy press releases. I take two reader requests. One is on Sirius Petroleum (SRSP) the other on my specialist subject - what is ISDX. In terms of companies I cover Cloudtag (CTAG), African Potash (FRAUD), RedT Energy (RED), Bilby (BILB). In the ISDX piece I mention Chapel Down and Mechan, we own shares in the latter.

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Stocks to get whacked, silver is where it is at

Daniel Ameduri of Future Money Trends says we are now in unprecedented times, and that the US is in a structural depression. That will see stocks get whacked.

AFPO
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African Potash arrives on the lobster pot - now remember to sack lyin' Chris Cleverley at the AGM

Surprise, surprise. After three months of looking for a Nomad to replace Cantor Fitzgerald who did not want to sign off on any more lies, the FRAUD African Potash (AFPO) has found no-one to take on the gig. It says that it is still in talks but who is so desperate for cash that they would want to act for such a slam dunk fraud? If no-one signs up for reputational hari kiri by January 7 Potash will be slung off the AIM Casino for good. Right now its shares are merely suspended. But what about the ISDX listing?

CTAG
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Cloudtag homophobe and ignoramus of the day - Greg Brittan

Of all the Cloudtag (CTAG) lunatics out there, Greg Brittan has to be the stupidest and also the most homophobic.It seems quite common among Cloudtag supporters on twitter to label someone "gay" as a term of abuse but Greg is obsessed about the subject. Almost every other tweet refers to a homosexual act, someones anus or a claim that someone else is gay.

SCE

Surface Transforms – half-year trading update, despite attempted glossing over cash burn concerns…

Previously writing on developer and manufacturer of jam tomorrow (Oops sorry, of carbon ceramic products for the brakes market), Surface Transforms (SCE) I concluded with the shares sliding below 25p that delayed jam tomorrow in conjunction with the nearer-term trading challenges saw me continue to avoid. There is now a “Trading Update” announcement, on the back of which the shares are currently around 8.5% lower at sub 22p...

C21
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21st Century Technology – having admitted “liquidity issues”, it’s expensive debt ahoy (it hopes!)

Previously writing on 21st Century Technology (C21), I stated caveat emptor with recent announcements looking like news flow ahead of attempted discounted fundraising ahoy. Today we have an announcement of “Debt Financing”

AAA
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Filthy 40 All Asia Asset Capital – keeps the lights on with a new contender for most expensive loan in AIM history

At the new no-one-is-watching o’clock of lunch-time yesterday, ShareProphets AIM-China Filthy Forty play All Asia Asset Capital (AAA) announced that it had received £100,000 in the form of a convertible keep-the-lights-on loan from an entity controlled by an un-named shareholder. One assumes that it must be a very small shareholder as there was no Related Party Transaction statement, but the terms suggest that the company is in a spot of bother. Er, actually a serious spot of bother.

MPE

M. P. Evans – asset sale to further bolster defence against takeover offer (Oops sorry, in line with long-term strategy)…

To further bolster its defence against a 740p per share offer from Malaysian company Kuala Lumpur Kepong (Oops sorry, “in the pursuit of the board's strategy to control and manage all our Indonesian plantation assets”), M. P. Evans (MPE) has announced a conditional agreement to sell its 36.84% share in PT Agro Muko to partner Sipef for $100 million and intention to pay a 10p per share special dividend to shareholders following completion…

AVO

Don't Kick Yourself Over Advanced Oncotherapy - Nor Let It Put You Off Other Medical Ventures

Hello Share Shiners. The decaying share value of Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) after and during inquiries by Uncle Tom will have left a fair few of us nursing losses. My own shortfall after selling my shares is not to be sniffed at.

Newsboy

October UK Investor Show Magazine - Shares to beat ASOS, When the Bubbles Pop, Scotland can't afford to leave

The October edition of the UK Investor Show magazine is live features 7 buy tips, including 5 our writers believe will  beat ASOS. Plus a feature on why the Bubbles are About to Pop, in Trump vs Clinton - who is the biggest loser from this contest, and why Scotland can't afford to leave the UK.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Insanity, Insanity and yet more Insanity

My day at the olive harvest was tiring and curtailed only slightly by Vreki - details HERE. But that explains the late bearcast on a day of stockmarket insanity. I discuss Santa rallies and some true indicators of the lunacy that abounds. At a company level I comment on Cloudtag (CTAG), Servision (SEV), African Potash (AFPO), Advanced Oncotherapy (Hee Hee), Metal Tiger (MTR), Amur Minerals (AMC) and Strat Aero (AERO).

CTAG
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Cloudtag - another day of mad share buying forces another announcement

Amid frantic speculation by the most moronic of bulletin board morons which saw shares in Cloudtag (CTAG) up to 15.5p the company has, for the second time this week, been forced to issue a statement. Regulators are watching this company, which has - of course - committed wholesale securities fraud, like a hawk.

BMR

BMR Group at 6.125p worth 27p after Kabwe news says WH Ireland

Ok, WH Ireland employs a good selection of total tossers and it is Nomad and Broker to BMR Group (BMR) so its research is not impartial. But the news from Kabwe yesterday was good and, as you know, I am a fully paid up member of the Alex Borrelli fan club. Borrelli has saved BMR after the former chairman stole all its cash and is one of AIM's honest chaps.

SEV
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Servision - vulture loan keeps it afloat for a couple of months

My analysis of interim results from AIM dog Servision (SEV) which came out in September was that it was not generating cash and that its balance sheet was a trainwreck. I summarise of course but you can see the full analysis here.

LGO
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LGO Energy signs up to death spiral and its shares surge... whatever

Shares in LGO Energy (LGO) have raced ahead by 33% to just over 0.14p on news that the company has signed up to a new uber expensive death spiral. Truly some folks just do not get why death spirals are called death spirals. But every cloud has a silver lining: the cash means that LGO can repay French banksters BNP Paribas.

AFPO
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FRAUD African Potash shares up 30% (and it was 90%) - a dead cat bounce as it debuts on ISDX

Shares in the fraud African Potash (AFPO) made their debut on the ISDX lobster pot today and for some reason have surged on AIM. This is a dead cat bounce. Tomorrow they will be suspended on AIM and a month later booted off the Casino because no Nomad will act for this company - Cantors having given notice on September 7. The reason that no Nomad will act - despite promises from lyin' Chris Cleverley in a recent RNS that he was confident one would - is that Potash issues lies via RNS to get placings away. Thus it is a fraud.

JLH

John Lewis of Hungerford – full-year results, “fifth consecutive year of sales growth” BUT…

Specialist kitchen manufacturer and retailer John Lewis of Hungerford (JLH) has announced results for its year ended 31st August 2016 – including a “fifth consecutive year of sales growth, which exceeded £8 million for the first time”. However…

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