SSince I am a loyal and supportive shareholder at Pensana Rare Earths (PRE), this video is naturally sweet music to my ears! And the video also focuses on the mega bull case for copper which, as an Asiamet (ARS) shareholder, makes me even happier.

Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) has updated its shrewd investors with news, including that “it is expected that an Independent Expert will shortly be nominated under the terms of the Joint Venture Agreements with Southern Gold. The Independent Expert will make a value determination within 30 days of being appointed” and also “with regards to its gold project in the Philippines that has remained dormant since mid 2016”…

If Supply@MECapital (SYME) was about to announce price sensitive information as it repeatedly claims, how come its directors are share dealing like dervishes? There is another one at it today – chairman Dominic White dumping stock with an excuse lamer than a three-legged cat and, meanwhile, the market abusing CEO Alessandro Zamboni has been forced, by my article, to clarify his dodgy dealings of yesterday. His clarification begs more questions.

Hello, Share Friends. You may know that Pets at Home (PETS) is one of my favourite retail plays. In fact, given the curse of the high street, it’s probably my only one. The over-riding reason is that we’re potty about our pets and this overblown fascination is only getting stronger. My town is overrun with dogs as an evermore isolated population turn to four-legged friends for company…

I have been distracted today as you can see HERE. In today’s podcast, I cover Wishbone Gold (WSBN) and Big Dave’s honesty. I look at Supply@ME Capital (SYME) and its latest dishonesty, Cineworld (CINE), Biome Technologies (BIOM) and at Versarien (VRS).

I have no crystal ball, so shares in Malcolm Burne’s Golden Prospect (GPM) could fall further before going up again, but I am convinced that it is now an outright buy.

Escape-the-room experiences company Escape Hunt (ESC) has updated including “trading in our UK owner-operated sites has been encouraging since we re-opened on 12 July… sales in the six weeks to 20 September… 72% of the same period in 2019… resulted in a positive site level EBITDA which was approximately 33% higher than the site level EBITDA in the equivalent six-week period in 2019” – and the shares have currently responded to 8p, 6.7% higher. However…

Another day and another massive red flag is hoisted by con Supply@ME Capital (SYME). Surely even the Sith Lord Zak Mir will not be able to promote this as good news while keeping a straight face?

Of course the first order Verditek (VDTK) won in the land of high culture was way back in 2019. But that turned out to be a fake “take or pay” contract designed to ramp the shares ahead of three bailout placings. Having finally fessed that it made that one up, Verditek has today announced a real order from down under. But it is tiny and will do sod all to ease the financial woes of a company that is technically insolvent, having negative net current assets and which is still burning cash.

Previously writing on bioplastics and radio frequency technology company Biome Technologies (BIOM), I concluded with the shares around 160p that the RF division position and overall cash burn continued to deter, but the bioplastics momentum continued to see it remain on the watchlist. The shares last closed at 240p, but are currently back down around 160p…

When, on August 11^th I looked at the rescue rights issue for fully-listed Hammerson (HMSO) and the terms, I concluded it was a slam dunk sell. At the time, the shares were (in consolidated terms) 264.9p with a mother-load of rights offer confetti to come at just 15p. The official ex-rights price calculation was 25.59p: now the stock is languishing at just 16.6p. A glass of Ouzo for me, then.

Remember how the PR spinners for Cineworld (CINE) conspired with the corrupt deadwood press to suggest that stakebuilding by a Chinese investor meant this company was a bid target?  Anyone who bought into that tosh will today be regretting it as interims show that this company is a zero.

A real ramshackle range of regulatory news updates today but I focus here on Funding Circle (FCH). I first wrote about this one in the summer of last year, after I noticed an office of its during a business trip of mine in San Francisco. Suffice to say it was ‘big and bold on the second floor of a nice small scale development in the middle (and most expensive part) of the city’. In that article, I highlighted the huge IPO shocker from a 440p listing price to just 135p then. The strategic car crash continued…

Kefi Gold and Copper (KEFI) has announced half-year results, but also more significantly “Hawiah Preliminary Economic Assessment”…

Hello, Share Toasters. A share which I’ve earlier recommended has been a disappointment lately. That’s because Zoo Digital (ZOO) is a contractor to TV and film companies and we all know how they’ve been affected by the pandemic. But a report to Zoo’s annual general meeting shows that the company is actually thriving…

Seven years ago shares in Tiger Royalties and Investments (TIR) traded at 2p. Today they are 0.25p offer. As at June 30 2012 net assets were £4.4 million. Eight years later net assets were £360,000 and last week the company announced another £500,000 raise at just 0.21p. Enough is enough say shareholders owning just under 6% of the company who are now calling a GM to oust boss Colin Bird. Bird has yet to fess up to this via RNS but happily Winnileaks has seen the requisition letter and thus I publish it below. 

Red Rock Resources (RRR) “is pleased to announce that it has received the Independent National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report on the BMV Gold Project held by JV company Red Rock Australasia Pty Ltd (Red Rock Resources: 50.1%)… It is the opinion of the authors that, after reviewing historical results and other publicly available information and data from the BMV Gold Project, the project presents an excellent opportunity for the issuer and is worthy of additional exploration work, targeting high-grade, orogenic gold mineralization in the Bendigo and Melbourne structural zones” Good news, and not only for that reason…

Of course he cannot answer, or not truthfully anyway. And that is the giveaway.  Elsewhere I look at what has really happened at Big Sofa (BST),  the AA (AA) which is toast, Amigo (AMGO), Asimilar (ASLR) and Dev Clever (DEV). Now to go put frozen peas on my hand and arm.

I am told that you can get borrow in Verditek (VDTK) and that the stock is now shortable. For the avoidance of doubt I am not short, I never am since it would allow folks who own shares in frauds, engage in frauds or promote or enable them to accuse me as having a vested interest and thus compromise my status as an investigative journalist. But if you are into shorting here’s why this company is now at the slow death or quick death point…

Dillistone Group (DSG) has announced results for the first half of 2020 emphasising “returned to profit (before acquisition related items)” and “we believe we are well positioned to deliver growth as we emerge from the current crisis”. What’s the detail from this recruitment software company?…