Small stake-building by a French Covid tester in Novacyt (NCYT) saw its shares surge yesterday and that prompted jumps across the sector. Over in Bulletin Board Moron land the talk was of merger mania sweeping the sector. I hate to disillusion you guys …

Remote site services group RA International (RAI) has announced full-year revenue “in line with management expectations” and that “the underlying business has remained profitable through this disruption and our solid balance sheet supports our forward looking requirements”. So what of a current share price response to 29p, more than 23% lower?…

AIM sewer posterboy NightCap (NGHT) still has massive questions to answer over misuse of shareholders cash by CEO Sarah Willingham and her husband Michael Toxic. But there is a another elephant in the room: how it is misleading investors as to just how poor its underlying trading position is. This matters as we head rapidly towards the next bailout placing.

Yesterday I outlined how the proposed Value Creation Plan at AIM listed Kistos (KIST) was nothing of the sort, it was just a scam aimed at handing up to £25 million of free shares to senior management, notably Andrew “Piggy” Austin of IGAS (IGAS) & Equities First Holdings infamy. The shares slumped on the news allowing Piggy to buy another 150,000 of them at a year low price. Today the company “clarifies.” My arse. It dissembles. This scheme needs a radical redrawing.

AIM-listed holiday resort developer in Crete Minoan (MIN) announced a company update yesterday. There was news from the boardroom and some positive noises from the Cavo Sidero project in Crete as well as some developments with regard to Greek law which the company the company thinks will have a positive impact. So is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Hello Share Speakers. Mining investment is more speculative than other areas of share buying. But the rewards may be better. My own policy is to pick companies which don’t just rely on exploration. An outfit that concentrates on recovering metals from mining waste is Jubilee Metals (JLP).

I start with a few thoughts on a visit this morning to the post industrial wastelands of Salford. Gosh it was grim.  Then a schoolboy error on Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) but it only makes the case  for filling your boots stronger. No, I have not got a scooby about why Bluebird (BMV) shares are up but I speculated and put together a few pieces of the jigsaw.  I look at W Resources (WRES) but would not touch it with a bargepole and then discuss the wholly unacceptable greed of Andrew “piggy” Austin at Kistos (KIST)

Jadestone Energy (JSE) states that it “is pleased to provide its guidance outlook for 2022”, including noting that it expects to generate material incremental cash at current oil prices and premiums and may consider an increase in shareholder returns through increased dividends and/or share buy-backs later in the year. Sounds good.

‘Smart’ buildings and commercial spaces software company SmartSpace (SMRT) is “pleased… results for the full year ending 31 January 2022 are expected to be slightly ahead of market expectations” and “excited by the opportunities that lie ahead”. The shares have responded up to 73.5p, but why does that compare to above 180p as recently as July?…

The headline is “value creation plan”. My arse. This is a disgracefully structured plan to further enrich Kistos (KIST) boss Andrew Piggy Austin and his fellow boardroom troughers. Oink. Oink. This is a disgrace. How on earth has Nomad Panmure Gordon signed off on this scheme as being fair?

Having just managed to get its shares unsuspended, PCF Group (PCF) has today warned folks that they are likely to be suspended again. To have your shares suspended once may be understandable. But twice looks like carelessness and the man responsible is now a key figure in the Supply@ME Capital (SYME) and Eight Capital Partners (ECP) fraud. Any quarter decent firm would have suspended David Bull months ago. But Supply & Eight promoted him instead.

LoopUp (LOOP) commences a trading statement with that it “expects both revenue and EBITDA for year ended 31 December 2021 to be broadly in line with market expectations” and adds “gross cash of £5.5 million”. So why currently a 10p share price, below £10 million market cap, more than 23% lower?…

Another interesting week in the global investment markets. I was certainly very lucky to spend my first five years working in the City between 1996 and 2001 because a whole load of geopolitical, macro and corporate stuff happened during that period. I also visited Russia for the first time during that period. For another time are some insights on what you would have found back then if you were a hungry/thirsty driver on a ‘motorway’ stop in Siberia, but it did at least provide me with some useful PGM industry and related insights. I have always been a bit of a sector fan in any case, which brings me to BHP Group (BHP) numbers today…

Fashion, beauty and homewares online retailing group MySale (MYSL) commences a trading update with that half-year “Gross Merchandise Value increased 36% to A$86.7m, reflecting progress in scaling the group’s off-price marketplace platform”. So why a current share price of 2.5p, down more than 24%?…

As you know I am reviewing my pension as discussed HERE. As such I am chatting to various CEOs who I have backed and yesterday evening I had a long chat with Stuart Ashman of Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX). He is not a bluffing promoter but, I believe, a sober and grounded chap. I came away from the call just incredibly excited. I explain why the share price is where it is but also why this could within a couple of years be a 10 bagger but it could equally be a 20 bagger. Certainly any free cash within my SIPP will, even at twice today’s price be going into this stock. And if I am right there is a clear implication for Optibiotix (OPTI) so I am not selling any shares in it either.  Footnote/correction. There are not 2 million psoriasis sufferers worldwide as per podcast but 120 million. I can’t say that weakens the case!

Hello Share Trackers. In the past, I’ve poured icy water on the idea of investing in companies connected to the film industry. But that was before Covid. Since then, there’s been a growing demand for films you can see in your own home on your own telly with its giant screen. I have contact with the film game and can tell you that the demand from the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney is booming.

BP plc (BP.) has announced fourth quarter and full year 2021 results and argues “strong progress” in its transformation to an ‘integrated energy company’.

Cake decoration and food ingredients company Real Good Food (RGD) commences a trading update with that it “entered its seasonally busier second half of the year in good shape”… so why a share price more than 14.5% lower today at 2.35p?…

Today we have great news from Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). The Ministry of Mines in Ethiopia, not always the greatest battler for “the cause” has confirmed that Kefi has until July to secure funding for Tulu Kapi and get the project underway. I know that Harry Adams is dotting the “I”s and crossing the “t”s on the funding now and expect an announcement within the next couple of months, if not far sooner, that funding is secured. That will drive a big re-rate and I am a very happy holder for that reason. But what of the mystery of the $1 company?

Ariana Resources (AAU) says that it is pleased to announce a 19% increase in Kiziltepe sector (Ariana – 23.5%) gold resource over the previous (2020) undepleted mineral resource estimate and that this shows the potential here. AIM companies though always say they are pleased to announce basically anything, so should Ariana really be pleased?