Rose Petroleum (ROSE) has updated the market  with news of  a £0.275 million fundraise at 1.1p per share from Robert Bensh and that Bensh has joined as Executive Chairman…this is a surprise but a welcome one.

I start with a discussion abiut a 19 mile rogue bloggers training walk today and about Woodlarks which I compare to the big name charities. I beg you to join the roll call of heros HERE. Then I look at Neil Woodford and events in Guernsey and explian in detail the role of the FCA and the ACD and why this could collapse very soon indeed. I discuss why no IFA worth his or her salt can risk not advising clients to redeem.

Anglo Asian Mining (AAZ) has updated on first quarter of 2019 production and operations and that “the company continues to generate cash with our net cash balance increasing by $4.7 million despite a $3 million payment of corporate taxation in the quarter”…

The big news for Neil Woodford this week is that his joke listings in Guernsey have been suspended, casting a big shadow over his tactics of playing with the rules over the unlisted stocks within his portfolio. The questions ahead are whether they will now be booted off the Guernsey International Stock Exchange, and what the FCA will demand of him in response.

From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2018 and thus far in 2019 (by net short position %, those in bold not on the list at the start of 2019) – and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

Hello, Share Screechers. With so much uncertainty in the world and dire warnings about share prices, some given on this beautiful website, it might be worth considering other forms of investment. I’ve been tempted by buying works of art, but as I know nothing about the subject I decided against it. And that's despite some huge profits art investors have seen over the last few years.

Writing last month on Wildwood and dim t restaurants group Tasty (TAST) with the shares at 6.5p, I concluded that the noted trading and financial situation saw me retain prior caution. Today a placing & open offer announcement…

In today's bearcast I read out an email sent to Paul Shackleton (and AIM Regulation) regarding Management Resourse Solutions (MRS) following today's bombshell HERE. I look at Plus 500 (PLUS), AFC Energy (AFC) and First Property (FPO) whose CEO is outed today as a Brexit Party candidate. I also do read out the roll call of heros who have sponsored Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. Tomorrow I am attemptng to do a 22 mile training walk so as you think of my pain why not be a hero too and sponsor all nine  rogue bloggers HERE

Previously writing on Mobile Streams (MOS) a couple of weeks ago, I noted interims & “the directors are analyzing further financing initiatives and a cost reduction program”. I bet they are!. Today CEO Simon Buckingham emphasises “decisive cost reduction actions. This has allowed the company to preserve and protect its remaining cash balances”. Has it?...

Previously writing on Contracts for Differences trading provider Plus500 (PLUS), I noted in February a house broker 1760p share price target but with the shares lower below 1000p concluded I’d certainly still feel more comfortable with the bears than the bulls. Today a ‘Q1 2019 Trading Update’ commencing “Subdued financial markets in the quarter weighed on revenue for the period”. Uh oh…

Entrepreneur Brandon Munro remembers the last uranium bull market and how much of it was focused around Australia. He says, “Paladin was an incredible ride in 2005 when it moved from four cents to two dollars.” That period was a wild intensely informative ride, and it taught him just how much leverage can come to uranium stocks.

It is bad enough that Management Resource Solutions (MRS) is insolvent as shown HERE. It is worse that it will not answer questions about the stink to high heaven non declared related party Alerion deal we exposed HERE. Now I have 12 more questions for Messrs Hogan, Zorbas and Grove. These worthless shares should be suspended at once.

The horrendous Q1 delivery numbers from Tesla (NASDAQ - TSLA) should have finally buried the growth story for all but the die hard believers and the focus now should move on to when it has to raise capital or file for bankruptcy…

It is some three years since Evil Banksta covered AIM-listed AFC Energy (AFC) on this site with his piece In the long run, AFC Energy is a zero. The shares were then 14.5p. Last night they were 3.775p and now they are 3.39p. I guess we are 76.5% there, then! This morning we were told that the company was pleased to announce its results – but should it be?

Venn Life Sciences (VENN), the AIM-listed integrated drug development partner, has announced that Raglan Capital, the vehicle of Cathal Friel, has subscribed for loan notes of £250,000...

Hello, Share Tumblers. Allow me to return to an old favourite which seems to me to offer some degree of reassurance in a changing world. It’s a group which specialises in the fortunes of emerging markets and developing countries. We hear a lot about how such regions are on the up and investment in this outfit seems an easy way of getting in on it...

I start by talking you through yesterday's Odd One Out contest explaining the schoolboy error made by Nigel Somerville and others. I look at the Autolus news in relation to Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT) where as a loyal shareholder I shall be attending the May 15 AGM in Oxford with a few questions for Neil "nomates" Woodford. I flag up a shocking little episode at Clear Leisure (CLP) which should make you worry about Octagonal (OCT) and Inspirit (INSP) given that their FD is disgraced Niliesh Jagatia  then discuss Management Resource Solutions (MRS) and finally, in detail, Toople (TOOP). Tomorrow I really will read out a Woodlarks heros roll call. Please join that list ahead of then HERE 

Provider of IT services to the life sciences market, Instem (INS) has announced shareholders including the DG 2008 Discretionary Settlement (of which Chairman David Gare and his wife are trustees) and non-executive director David Sherwin have sold shares… “as a result of strong institutional investor demand following our recent results”. With such demand seemingly unable to be met by the market, a good price in relation to a last close 330p share price then?...

No doubt Neil Woodford will be delighted that his good friends at Crystal Amber think they can realise the equivalent of 123p a share from Allied Minds (ALM). No matter it is a loss, it will be cash in the bank – much needed – IF Crystal gets control and IF the assets are worth what they think and IF they manage to sell them. Meanwhile, dear old Neil – having yet again spunked more other people’s money on Kier (KIE) which promptly fell to a new low - is now faced with a cash-call from Autolus (Nasdaq: AUTL).  What will he do?

Having earlier this week updated including “the board's current view is that the business will require material further equity and/or debt funding in the next quarter without which the company would be unable to continue as a going concern”, now an “Early Redemption of Loan Notes” announcement from 7digital Group (7DIG). Uh oh…