Kiss of death

33 days ago

Tern AGM notice reveals intention to be able to issue yet more shares but where are the results?

Sub scale investment company basket case Tern (TERN), one of the Jonathan” kiss of death” Swann stable of hounds, issued the notice for its AGM on 8 June which included following statements:

49 days ago

Chris Cleverley founded shitco Technology Minerals – proposed hugely dilutive fundraise but how likely is the raise to occur?

In its last results for the six months to 31 December 2025 Technology Minerals (TM1) showed a loss of £1,585,000 and had period end net liabilities of £1,988,000, demonstrating that it desperately needed refinancing.  Yesterday Technology announced an “Expanded Strategy, Proposed Fundraise and Directorate Changes”.  Uh oh – confetti ahoy.

119 days ago

Technology Minerals – tell me a placing has failed without issuing an RNS to say that a placing has failed

I realise that comrade Jonathan “kiss of death” Swann is up to his eyeballs in Technology Minerals (TM1) and I do not wish to offend him for he is a good, if sometimes misguided, chap. But I have a question regarding the placing at Technology.

120 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Gold, 3 gold stocks and beware the MMs you Skins groupies

In today's bearcast I start with an even bigger kiss of death than the Swanny snog and Bluebird Mining Ventures (BMV), the share price of Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), the gold price and then Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Golden Prospect (GPM) and Amaroq (AMRQ).

156 days ago

Technology Minerals and the deafening sound of silence, the FCA needs to force a statement

On 15 January the insolvent shitco Technology Minerals (TM1) announced a reconstruction including a small placing which had been completed and a secondary placing of #2 million needed to partially refinance loan notes held by spiv broker Fortified and our old pal Comrade Jonathan “kiss of death: Swann. Fortified and Swanny were also going to get new shares in part consideration. Now good news travels fast…

163 days ago

EXPOSE: Genflow Biosciences - 34 days is a long time when you want to deceive investors

On 8 January 2026 Genflow Biosciences (GENF) served up a trading update  using the Adam Reynolds keyboard but one claim stood out:

2196 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Zak Mir's kiss of death as I celebrate P45s for vermin journalists

I have spent most of the day recording videos for MineProphets and should warn you that Zak Mir has served up a double kiss of death. Anyway the content is – forgive my conceit – excellent so please book your seat now HERE.  In the podcast I discuss scumbags at Blue Rock Diamonds (BRD), Great Western Mining (GWMO) and its scumbag broker Novum, Kefi Minerals (KEFI) where I was wrong about something and Big Sofa (BST).

2547 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: On the nature of fraud, the demise of spiv broker SVS, Versarien and other sordid matters

I reflect on two sorts of fraudsters in the news, King conman Rob Terry HERE and chaps at Goals Soccer Centres (GOAL) HERE. I offer a cameo of life here in Greece explaining why the economy is such a joke, discuss Versarien (VRS) its latest news, the kiss of death from Zak Mir HERE, and its valuation and also comment on Optibiotix (OPTI) and the demise of the spivs at SVS Securities

3702 days ago

Fusionex: A Right Wrong 'un reports dismal interims, well done Kevin Ashton

We have been on the case of bargepole stock Fusionex (FXI) since the world's greatest tech analyst Kevin Ashton flagged it up as a sell at UK Investor 2015. The bear case grew with Zak Mir giving it the kiss of death with not one but two buy tips but it was the trading statement last Autumn that really woke folks up to the genius of Ashton as an analyst and of Mir as a counter-indicator. Today we have interims. Natch, the shares are down - at 158p - but the stance remains a stand out sell.

3830 days ago

Oxus Gold appoints administrators - another kiss of death from Zak Mir, Evil Knievil takes £60k bath

It is not a great day for the AIM Casino. First down PeerTV (PTV) and now Oxus Gold (OXS) has called in the administrators and Nomad SP Angel has quit. The shares have been suspended since it lost its spurious legal case in Uzbekistan and now the money has all gone.

3875 days ago

Video: Zak Mir presentation at Gold & Bears November 2015

For those folks who believe in charting or want to hear which stocks the Sith Lord wishes to curse with his kiss of death we provided a special breakout room for financial masochists at the show. I normally write "enjoy" at this point but somehow that does not seem appropriate

3906 days ago

Oilex – this could be terminal

It gets worse. Shares in AIM and ASX listed Oilex (OEX) have now been suspended on Oz as the full scale of its legal difficulties emerges. The stock has never really recovered from the dual kiss of death of being tipped by both Zak Mir (HERE) and by market abuser Chris Oil (HERE) and is today down another 31% at 0.375p – roughly 90% below the levels when tipped by the dynamic duo a few months ago. 

3965 days ago

Iofina – time for another profits warning or bailout placing? Or both?

On 14^th July 2015 AIM Casino dog Iofina (IOF) made its last announcement – the usual bag of shite trading update. Its shares closed the day at c22p. The shares are now 14.5p having fallen steadily over the past two months but aggressively of late. So when and what is the bad news?

Obviously Zak Mir tipping the shares as a buy on August 8^th was a bit of a kiss of death but there must be something worse to come?