And now from Wales, by just 30 yards, it is my new weekly video show. This costs 99p per episode, and you can either listen to, or watch, some sparky interviews with  Kerim Sener of Ariana Resources (AAU), where I am a loyal shareholder, and then with the sorcerer’s apprentice Steve Moore on the markets and on what he owns. You can access the show HERE 

A few words on the Budget then is Peterhouse staffed by woke loons or alt right freaks or both? I discuss in relation to Mountfield (MOGP). I look at Marechale (MAC), Iconic (ICON), Optibiotix (OPTI) and Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX).

Money manager Vncent Lanci explains some of the terms surrounding the bond markets and the current signs of low investor interest. Strangely, there was a massive reaction on Thursday’s Treasury auction to that lack of interest. The market was behaving like it expected the Fed to raise rates. In his speech on Thursday, everything that Powell said revealed the Fed would not raise rates, and they were not concerned by inflation. They stated they would remain extremely accommodating.

As a loyal shareholder I see nothing to shock me and a good bit to please. Specifically:

The FCA has clearly failed investors on am serial basis over many years: Woodford, all of those mini bond disasters not just London & Capital Finance, Quindell, the list goes on and on.  So now under new CEO Nikhil Rathi there is claim that it is getting its act together. Frankly this is woke cobblers, it is rewarding failure, it is not changing a culture of smug and holier than thou incompetence.

Previously writing on soft drinks company Nichols (NICL), in January I reviewed share price decline towards 1150p despite it arguing Vimto & International business positives – concluding I monitored on the watchlist but to avoid the shares. Today results for the 2020 calendar year emphasising “Resilient financial performance despite challenging trading conditions”, but the shares further lower at 1100p?…

Shares in Supply@ME Capital (SYME)  have now been “temporarily” suspended – after I explained to the FCA why a suspension was needed – since January 21. I wonder how the Sith Lord Zak Mir, such a keen promoter of this fraud, interprets the 1 month share price chart?

This all looks fishier than a case of seven week old kippers left in the sun. You will remember that on 1 February 2021 the three patsy directors of Iconic (ICON),  who were paid two hundred grand a year each to do the bidding of toxic Dave Sefton, quit before they were pushed and that day signed new contracts to work direct for toxic Dave’s Greencastle.  Greencastle owned assets thanks to deals funded by Iconic in return for a Iconic getting a management contract but that contract was also terminated on February 1. That should be a hanging offence but it gets worse.

I have written many times about DS Smith (SMDS), typically loving-up its exposure to e-commerce delivery box-making…along with a capability for ‘sustainable packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services worldwide’. I know this is not that exciting an area but the first bit in particular has growing demand all around the world. Even the average company is working out that to be competitive against the Amazons of this world, having such a box option matters. Unfortunately for them DS Smith is a big supplier to Amazon too…

Gold investor Don Durrett believes that the yellow metal is currently trapped on the chart and will fall before it recovers. Investors currently don’t have a good reason to exit the stock market and buy gold. If a correction occurs in stocks, it seems unlikely that gold will avoid taking a liquidity hit, but it will recover.

Hello, Share Scoopers. My long-standing investment in RSA Insurance Group (RSA) has seen some nasty disappointments over the years. There was that time when a big take-over offer for the giant insurer came to naught, wiping out a fistful of paper profits. And now the company is involved in another potential merger. The shares have jumped accordingly, but my dilemma is whether to sell in case the present offer falls through.

Biffa plc (BIFF) describes itself as “the UK’s leading sustainable waste management business”. This FTSE 250 company has, like many, suffered from the lockdown restrictions but previously not as significantly as it feared and there looks further recovery and growth potential ahead not discounted in the share price…

There was a lot of excitement today at the Welsh Hovel with moving compost pits. More on that gripping subject later. I then look at Hurricane Energy (HUR), Cellular Goods (CBX), Coral Products (CRU) – once again as a value buy, Wildcat (WCAT) and the Zoetic (ZOE) linked harassment of myself and Peter Brailey.

Communications integration technology group CloudCall (CALL) “is pleased to announce… raising £7.2 million via the placing of 8,845,284 placing shares at the issue price of 81.5 pence per placing share and raising £291k via the placing of 357,169 PrimaryBid shares at the issue price”. Should it be pleased?…

You will recall how Seth Freedman harassed and insulted me over the course of 16 phone calls on 24 February. He said it was investors in the fraud Zoetic (ZOE) who had prompted him to contact me and that he would take pleasure in defaming me. Another Zoetic expose appeared here yesterday and like a puppet on a string, Seth is at it again, this time harassing Peter Brailey as well.

Hurricane Energy (HUR) updated the market today. It is interesting for what the RNS says and as importantly what it does not say. The company has re-iterated the bondholders are now very much influencing operations and at best shareholders should expect some serious dilution. But how are things going operationally I wonder?

Having asked for readers tips for 2021 for the prize of 1/2 litre of Tom Winnifrith’s Greek Hovel olive oil (2021 harvest) HERE, the following is an update on performance as at the end of February (to be eligible needed to have selected, on a once per username basis, a buy & sell pick from the LSE or AIM casino and the stocks not to have been suspended at the commencement of 2021)…

Wildcat (WCAT) was established as a private company on 8 January 2020 with £50,400 of share capital. Those shares are now valued on the Standard List of the London Stock Exchange at just over £30 million. The whole blockchain related affair stinks because the real tangible value of this enterprise is 99% less than that! Let me explain.

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern plc (TERN) has offered yet another portfolio update – this time entitled Portfolio News – the fourth such effort so far this year. If at first you don’t succeed (in ramping your shares), try, try and try again! But with nothing of substance to report (Moi? A cynic?) today’s ramparoonie is merely and RNS Reach.

We’ve all seen the adverts on TV. Michael Parkinson and a bunch of others in their twilight years trying to persuade us to invest our hard-earned in a funeral plan. If you have not switched to ITV 3 to watch all the re-runs of old detective shows. All the ads are for cruises or funeral plans. The nice lady who presided over the wedding of myself and the Mrs asked me about one a few months back. I said no way. But she went ahead anyway as Parky knows more about it than I do. Well maybe he was just in it for the money too as the FCA has, for once, acted in the right way slating the whole sector for the rip off it is.