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WPCT

WPCT – Oopsadaisie Neil, what’s today's disaster?

Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT), which is considering Neil Woodford’s future as manager, announced its NAV as at the close of play of Friday this morning (just) at 11.57am. We had been warned that Link was marking down the value of investee Industrial Heat by the equivalent of 3.4p per WPCT share. But it seems this was not the only bad news….

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Wasting 20 minutes of my life trying to help thicko journalist Mark Shapland

The Evening Standard man is not very bright and still does not understand the import of today's Muddy Waters Burford (BUR). Look at the tweet exchange below. Would you believe I wasted 20 minutes of my life answering questions about the dossier from this ungrateful knobhead today?. It is not the first time I've helped him but with no grace to credit, it will be the last.  I also look at First Derivatives (FDP), discuss the very low grade lawyer's letter I received today, look at ADM Energy (ADME) and at the comedy show that is Providence Resources (PVR)

Trump

Collapsing the US economy on Trump’s head...

Collapsing the US economy on Trump’s head is one sure way to prevent his re-election...

LVCG

Live Company – after Friday attempted no one watching o’clock announcement, “Operational Update”...

An “Operational Update” from Live Company (LVCG) commencing; “The group is pleased to announce it has now contracted 60 BRICKLIVE shows and events across the world for 2019, achieving a key milestone for the company. This was the original target set by the company for the year ending the 31 December 2019. The group will continue to work with new and existing partners to deliver further shows and events in the remaining four months of 2019.” Sounds good – but then on Friday it was intra-day (2pm) RNS. Attempted no one watching o’clock?

RAV
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Neil Woodford – the dash for cash: Raven Property

Today Raven Property Group Ltd, (RAV) a Russian Property Investment Group, announced strong results with an increase in diluted net asset value per share of 40% to 67p (31 December 2018: 48p).  The company also announced a proposed distribution of “1.25p per ordinary share by way of a tender offer buy back of 1 in 44 shares at 55p.”

PURP
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BREAKING: New Purplebricks boss Vic Darvey hints at wholesale changes in UK business model

Right now the UK operations of Purplebricks (PURP) are booking a small profit. So if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, right? Er new boss Vic Darvey has given an interview to the Press Association hinting very much otherwise.

Newsboy
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Motels, gold and the stock no active investor should buy

As a self-confessed investment sad-o, I really like statistics such as when the guys who started the US discount hotel chain Motel 6 opened their first roadside inn in 1962, an ounce of gold would have apparently bought you a six night stay. Now (at today's prices) it buys you a twenty one night stay. Now we can debate whether you want to spend three weeks in a Motel 6 or not...but you get the point I am trying to make. A bit of gold goes a long way to improve the performance of the characteristics of your portfolio in times of strife…

BUR
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Muddy Waters credits ShareProphets and Drunken Sailor as publishes new Burford dossier

To his credit, Carson Block has credited us fully in his new dossier covering the Napo scandal. The contents will be familiar to our readers having been published here 2 weeks ago. But it has aroused the deadwood press. I have already had one hack on the trombone seeking further clarification. The citical point is that without a Napo win fee, Burford (BUR) would have reported a 2013 loss, not a profit, shortly before getting away a big bond issue. As I noted in a letter to the Nomad Johnny Allison ten days ago "name that case!"  Burford's failure to do so is telling. The new Muddy Waters dossier is below:  

Malcolm

The PPI Obsession and Why I'll be So Glad When This Week's Deadline Passes

Hello, Share Scrapers. Nobody has any idea how the bank holiday tumbles in Asian markets will affect the Footsie this week. And as this gorgeous website is dedicated to showing you how to make money, let me turn to an area which is now’t to do with shares but which could still put thousands in your pocket...

ADME
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Letter to Nomad Cairn Financial re ADM Energy: why were you party to deception and are you contacting the FCA

Shares in ADM Energy (ADME) are almost certainly, more or less worthless, as Gary Newman explained here. Those who paid c20p at peak “Sheikh on the Make hype”  for the shares must be spitting nails. The object of their anger should be Nomad Cairn Financial, of Cloudtag infamy, to whom I have written today cc’ing in AIM Regulation and the FCA. The letter follows.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Hey whistleblowers don't go to the FCA, it's proven to be useless, come to me & here's why

Prompted by two phone calls today which could yield explosive results against an old adversary I reflect on why more and more whistleblowers come to me and why they are safe in doing so. Then, prompted by something very exciting I should be able to reveal  in September, I look at why going to the FCA is such a waste of time and what it needs to do to change its ways.

GTC

Getech – half-year trading update, results detail to highlight the value?

Provider of geoscience and geospatial products and services, Getech (GTC) has updated including “although H1 2019 revenue was lower than in H1 2018, new sales have strengthened Getech's forward earnings path”

GRIT
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BREAKING: GRIT – will you or Peterhouse be asking the FCA to investigate boss David “Sam” Hutchins? If not why not?

Oh dear. Oh dear. I have been made aware of certain actions by David “Sam” Hutchins the soon to depart boss of main market listed  Global Resources Investment Trust (GRIT). I know his fellow board members are aware of them and to them, and to new adviser Peterhouse, I ask “have you requested the FCA investigate and if not why not?” The allegations against City Grandee Hutchins are severe and if proven should be career ending.

SMDS
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t's a foolish game to predict takeovers, so naturally here are three!

There's nothing like a thirty percent pop in a share price to make you feel like an investing genius...even if all this does is compress your loss on an individual share a little bit.  

ITM
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ITM Power – I like ITM Power’s storey. Speculative buy

My interest in alternative energy companies on AIM has seen me conclude Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) and Powerhouse Energy (PHE) are fundamentally un-investable to me. I like the sound of RedT Energy (RED) as noted here. ITM Power (ITM) has potential - I can see some good reasons to invest.

Gold
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Gold makes another new high: very nice, but what to do?

I have made no secret of my view that Gold is an essential part of one’s portfolio. Not everyone will agree, but that is my view. In the light of what is going on now, those who have exposure will be perhaps the only people smiling right now. The one technical analyst rated by ShareProphets, Jordan Roy-Byrne of thedailygold.com has been forthright in his views that the metal is headed much higher over many years, after a very extended period of waiting, and although recently he had been suggesting a correction was due he remains a strong bull.

Boom
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The Twenty Most-Read Stories and Most-Listened-To Bearcasts This Year (So Far)

We've published 2,292 stories since 1 January. Here are the twenty most-read articles and twenty most-listened-to Bearcasts.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: First Derivatives tells me to take down (legitimate) articles so instead here are some explosive court filings from the US

FTI Consulting, PR for First Derivatives (FDP), wants me to take down legititmate articles asking legitimate questions. If Roger Lawson had his way I'd have to take them down. Luckily the ShareSoc supremo can't gag a free press so instead I publish some more, explosive, court documents about First Derivatives in full, below and in this podcast I explain why they matter. 

PHE
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Powerhouse Energy – Technical risks and no commercial clarity..and a placing ahoy. What’s not to like?!

The UK government has committed to a carbon neutral policy by 2050. Achieving this aim will require a massive shift from hydrocarbon fuel sources for electrical power generation, building heating and vehicle fuel sources to alternatives. We are also increasingly hearing about plastics and the need for a good disposal route. Powerhouse Energy (PHE) appears to provide one potential means of investing in these trends. Unfortunately it does not tick my investment boxes at all!

KGP
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Kingspan – on a hot day, let's talk about insulation

As it is - for once - a warm Bank Holiday weekend, it feels perfectly appropriate to talk about insulation and that brings me onto a company I first mentioned on these pages a year ago, Kingspan (KGP)…

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