46 days ago
Today’s junior mining disaster on the AIM Casino is Landore Resources (LND) which has announced that its proposed dual listing in Canada and an associated C$5 million placing has been pulled. Just how much of a financial black hole does it now face? And how soon will it fall into it?
47 days ago
The interim accounts for the six months to June 30th showed that the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) had net liabilities of £2,108,000 meaning that it was technically insolvent because liabilities exceeded assets. The ongoing business lost £2,376,000 in the six months, roughly around £400,000 per month. By the year end of 31 December 2023, in under a months’ time, Supply will be looking at a £4 million excess of liabilities over assets.
69 days ago
It is suggested to me that before the October 2 announcement of a $188 million black hole at Horizonte Minerals (HZM) there was insider dealing or at least an illegal leak of information. I do not think there was but there are things that make me uneasy.
352 days ago
I am still celebrating Star Wars Day and discuss Tintra (TNT), Argo Blockchain (ARB), Deepverge (DVRG), Microsaic (MSYS), the madness at Mosman Oil & Gas (MSMN) and the black hole at Bidstack (BIDS), hence its delayed results
408 days ago
Why do such a fund raise now folks ask? Because it can is the reason, thanks to thuggish share plugging involving bent journalism and forward selling, Versarien (VRS) has an extra £275,000 net cash. Versarien says it is going to be spent on growth opportunities and working capital but that is obviously a lie. Some may go on funding ongoing losses. It could go on giving Neill Ricketts a £197,000 payoff. Or….
446 days ago
In October of 2022 Bidstack (BIDS) completed a fundraise at 2.85p raising a net £9.5 million. Its house broker Stifel said that this would be enough to get it through to breakeven in 2024. But I suggest that is patent bollocks and that there could be a cash crisis ( again) this year. Here’s why.
568 days ago
Shares in PCF Group (PCF) closed 2020 at 30p. Less than three months later they were suspended at 24p as a black hole created by its then recently departed numbers man David Bull emerged. It has been downhill ever since and today’s latest dire update has seen them collapse by 33% to 1.5p. But a spread of 1p-2p suggests market makers know that there could be far worse to come. This is Bull’s fault. Who on earth would employ him now?
571 days ago
I say soar. The shares are up 27% at 4.3p. To those dumb fund managers who ponied up £200 million (half from the company and have from investors bailing) at 200p in last year’s IPO that will be scant consolation. They are still almost 98% offside! The news is mixed.
784 days ago
On 15 February 2021, the administrators of High Street Grp filed its statement of Joint Administrators Proposals. I hope that the FCA which ignored our numerous warnings on what could be the largest mini bond scandal ever, a more than £200 million black hole, feels truly ashamed about what we discovered.
927 days ago
There was a mad old coot sitting in the middle of the road yesterday explaining how she was doing it to stop the world running out of oxygen. I kid you not. It turned out that this woman aged 61 was a retired GP. She had quit a while back to concentrate on saving the planet and the point is that after years troughing it and with a bumper, taxpayer funded pension, she could afford to quit at an age when nearly all of us still face years at the coalface.
960 days ago
Oh dear, oh dear. Shares in PCF Group (PCF) which have been “temporarily” suspended since an accounting black hole emerged on 19 May look like they are going to be “temporarily” suspended a good bit longer. The AIM dog had said that the black hole in the September 30 2020 P&L was going to be less than £750,000. But today…
1420 days ago
Between June and December 2016, I commented extensively in a series of article on the greed of William Dewsall, the CEO of Gable Insurance Holdings Inc, who extracted over £15 million in cash from the Group and its dire prospects, which to remind readers ended up being worthless when its insurance subsidiary company was placed into administration on 17 November 2016. Natch Nomad and broker Zeus and the oxymorons at AIM Regulation did nothing until it was too late.
1616 days ago
On my last bearcast before I flee to the Greek Hovel (cue calls from Bulletin Board Morons that I live in a hovel as I am a peasant and that I am evading justice for some crime or another), I discuss today’s chapter of retail-aggedon (Clarkes), the Neil Woodford Rutherford International (RUTH) £32.5 million black hole and why Amigo (AMGO) is almost certainly not on a PE of 3 and almost certainly not cheap.
1629 days ago
AIM dog Brady (BRY) will shortly be taken over by PE firm Hanover at 10p a share. If the deal is not supported by shareholders the company will go bust. I have already twice written to the FCA and AIM Regulation demanding that they investigate how Brady and its Nomad Cenkos mislead investors. Today the scale of that deception has become clear.
1629 days ago
Rutherford International (RUTH) formerly Proton Partners has today published interim results showing a £51 million black hole and the scale of this Neil Woodford disaster which will eventually cost his investors c£100 million.
1968 days ago
In today's podcast I look at Purplebricks (PURP), Neil Woodford's cash woes, re BTG (BTG), MySquar (MYSQ), Fishing Republic (BUST), Bushveld Minerals (BMN), who's a naughty boy then Fortune?, Quadrise Fuels (QFI) and at Sound Energy (SOU) which even at 13p is a verry poor risk reward play.
2153 days ago
As at 31 December 2016 Ariadne Capital Limited run by Julie "lingerie on expenses" Meyer claimed to have net assets of £3.859 million in its companies house filing. Less than a year later it was bust and those assets were shown to be fantasy, imaginary - the administrator reckons that, instead, there is a creditor deficiency of £2.715 million. But a new internal document obtained by Winnileaks suggest's that number is too low, Meyer's black hole could be far larger.
2871 days ago
It is in default on its loans but the banks keep putting off the day they pull the plug. Today the company admitted that its attempts to sell its assets had not yet secured any firm offers. Well knock me down with a feather boa sailor, quell fecking surprise. But now it gets worse. Top analyst Zac Phillips, a man who was once seen as the Geoffrey Howe of hydrocarbon analysis but who is rapidly become an attack shark, flags up a massive black hole of a tax liability for Trinity Exploration (TRIN). Writing in the SP Angel morning note today Jaws warns:
