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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: reflecting on a past Christmas I spent in Bethlehem, on wars past and present and on why I am bullish about shares if bearish about life
I start with a few thoughts about my faith, one shared with Malcolm, then about disagreeing with bearish Nigel about equities. Then to a Christmas past for myself and Big Nose in Bethlehem and to GroupThink lies about Bethlehem today. Finally to wars past, as recounted HERE, and the war being lost by Ukraine as, sadly, I predicted. I hate war so much. On that sad note, I wish you all a Merry Christmas.- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 24 December 2023, 14:39 |
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The ShareProphets tips of the year Number 2, a SELL from Lucian Miers
Between now and January 3 we will serve up 20 share tips of the year from the team at ShareProphets. Most writers pen two tips, Tom will do 6. There will be longs, shorts, blue chips and small caps. We continue this series with a SELL from Lucian Miers.- By Lucian Miers |
- 24 December 2023, 13:41 |
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Competition Result: Christmas Red Flags At Night Sweepstakes
The list of dodgy announcements on the last trading day before Christmas – issued when no-one is watching – this year was extraordinary. We had a record year last year, but it was easily beaten this time. As ever, announcing results, circulars, director resignations etc all count as automatic inclusions. Here is the summary, as adjudicated by the Global Shorting Conspiracy……- By Ebenezer Scrooge |
- 24 December 2023, 12:19 |
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The ShareProphets share tips of the year Number 1, a BUY from Malcolm Stacey
Between now and January 3 we will serve up 20 share tips of the year from the team at ShareProphets. Most writers pen two tips, Tom will do 6. There will be longs, shorts, blue chips and small caps. We start with a BUY from Malcolm Stacey.- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 24 December 2023, 11:36 |
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Sunday Long Reads: Taking Out Prigozhin, Catfished by Cops, Cracking locked Bitcoin Drive, Bigfoot, Generative AI
Sunday is a good time to sit back, read, and forget about shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don't you?
- By Darren Atwater |
- 24 December 2023, 10:38 |
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The ShareProphets Christmas Eve Pub Quiz #220
It's time for the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz.. There are no prizes! And remember, no Googling!
- By Darren Atwater |
- 24 December 2023, 10:38 |
Visual Aid: Cities With the Most Millionaires in the World
From the World’s Wealthiest Cities Report 2023 by Henley & Partners, we map out the top 20 metro areas around the world where the most millionaires live.
- By Darren Atwater |
- 24 December 2023, 10:32 |
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Very Sexy Andrew Monk’s Christmas Carol Part 2
Try as he could, Andrew Monk was feeling not very sexy Andrew after the visit of the ghostly figure in a Wrexham hoodie. “Surely everyone knows how important and well connected I am” he repeated over and over again to himself. But he just could not get to sleep.- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 24 December 2023, 10:16 |
Festive Break: View from ShareProphets’ Readers’ Windows – Odiham
Every year, in a tradition going back to to those heady days of 2014, we've published the Views from ShareProphets' Readers' Windows. Today’s view comes from Richard in exotic Odiham where ... I’m not quite sure what is happening in the picture. Are you safe on the other side of the window, Richard?- By Darren Atwater |
- 24 December 2023, 10:14 |
Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending 23 December
Here are the most read and most listened-to articles and Bearcasts on ShareProphets over the past seven days. The most read non-Quiz, non-Tom article last week is Steve Moore with CAP-XX – patent infringement action failure. Er, what about the cash position now? at No 3 or No 7 including Bearcasts.
- By Darren Atwater |
- 24 December 2023, 10:10 |
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Very Sexy Andrew Monk’s Christmas Carol Part 1
The fragrant Mrs. Monk had left for the family’s Cornish Mansion, Dun Broking, some days previously. Very Sexy Andrew, as he liked to refer to himself, had been detained in London by a series of meetings with other terribly important men and so was set to fly down to the Cornish Riviera early on Christmas Day. For now, he found himself alone in his West London townhouse just a few doors away from Jeremy Vine’s pile.- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 23 December 2023, 18:31 |
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Inspirit – more hot air but still no revenue generating product and usual school boy errors from AIM’s worst FD, Nilesh Jagatia
On 22 December at 11.28 AM Inspirit (INSP) released its annual results for the period to 30 June 2023. Suffice to say they were atrocious and riddled with errors.- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 23 December 2023, 17:31 |
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Shanta bid our readers have made a reasonable profit but is bid too low?
The boards of directors of the Saturn Resources subsidiary of ETC Holdings and Shanta Gold* (SHG) state that they “are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition… for each Shanta Share: 13.5 pence in cash”. Shares in Shanta are currently up to 12.9p to sell in response, meaning a near 23% gain on our 10.5p offer price current tip and more than 34% on our 9.6p emergency re-tip. So what to do?- By Hotstockrockets |
- 23 December 2023, 17:29 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Evri/Hermes, a lesson in how screwing stakeholders other than shareholders will kill you in the end
I start with some pre Christmas chit chat and then turn to my own actually related experiences this week with Britain's worst delivery company Evri, formerly Hermes. They tally with a Daily Mail expose today HERE and have lessons for all investors about rebranding and screwing non shareholder stakeholders.- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 23 December 2023, 17:29 |
Festive Break: View from ShareProphets’ Readers’ Windows (10 Years!) – St George’s, Grenada
Every year, in a tradition going back to to those heady days of 2014, we've published the Views from ShareProphets' Readers' Windows. We've seen readers' views from all continents (except Antarctica but we're working on that), from winter wonderlands to warm paradises. Also, the late and much missed Steve Holdsworth's Paddington Dungeon view.
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Professor Malcolm Stacey's Perfectly Profound, Much Imitated, yet Never, Ever Bettered, Christmas Seminar.
Hello Share Carollers. The big question any sane person is asking at the moment is this. If there’s a caring and loving God, how can He allow the agony of kidnapped relatives and the killing in the Palestine/Israeli conflict? Not to mention that other carnage in Ukraine. After all, one of the battlegrounds is very near where Jesus was born on Christmas Day. The answer is this…- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 23 December 2023, 17:14 |
For the Christmas Week, let’s see the view through your front window
This is the tenth year that we have run pictures of the view through ShareProphets’ Readers’ Windows. What started as something easy to post during a slow period has turned into a fascinating peek into the varied and world-spanning lives our our readers. Readers have sent in photos from every continent (except Antarctica – but we have had one from the Falklands Islands) and everything from warm sands to blistering snow storms.- By Darren Atwater |
- 22 December 2023, 13:24 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The madness of Brian Basham & its all about the placing spoof with Chill Brands leading the charge
I start with the crackpot socialism of my pal Brian Basham who wants us all to pay more taxes. Indeed he told me today that paying taxes is a privilege. Then a moan about BBC Radio 4. Then Chill Brands (CHLL), Bidstack (BIDS) and Vast Resources (VAST). Finally, it is that time of the year again, the View from Readers Windows at Christmas. If you can take a snap please send it to Darren at editorial@shareprophets.com. I shall miss Steve Holdsworth's view from a Paddington Dungeon this year. He was a good man.- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 22 December 2023, 13:00 |
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EnSilica – how much so an “agreement” which “reinforces… standing as a leading European ASIC supplier”?…
Describing itself as “a leading chip maker of mixed-signal Application Specific Integrated Circuits”, EnSilica (ENSI) “is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive and binding Letter of Intent for the development and supply of a high-end ASIC for use in telecommunications infrastructure, with work commencing next month”. How ‘pleasing’ is this, with the shares currently up a few percent in response to 38.5p?- By Steve Moore |
- 22 December 2023, 12:25 |
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Bidstack shares soar as settles, i.e caves, to Azerion – morons need to do the maths
The morons really have not done their maths. Bidstack (BIDS) may have settled its dispute with Azerion and will be getting 3 million Euro (£2.6 million) but it is still utterly fecked. A 153% share spike today is a selling opportunity for any cross dressing IT consultants still owning the shares. Let me explain.- By Tom Winnifrith, the Sheriff of AIM |
- 22 December 2023, 12:06 |