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Toffee
You could be correct about a placing upcoming as Kepler yesterday released a "puff" video on them, often a good sign that a company wishes to raise its profile.

Trek
And it edges up again today again, perhaps someone could pop down to the Costa Coffee in Tunbridge Wells to hear what they are talking about !
It is a remarkable recovery so far, as a full up holder I am very pleased to see it so.

Of the 2 direct investments announced today, Axis Spine is one I have and is a very promising business.
At present we don't know what the price is, perhaps this is one of the "no new material information will be disclosed" ?

Interesting that you predict a bit of S&M for the "dynamic duo", as they both live in Greenwich which is just across the river from me, when I hear their high pitched squeals I'll let you know !

If I were a cynic, the way the JIM share price has eased upwards over the past week or so could give me the impression that someone knows something...
Of course, not being a cynic I would never suspect such a thing...

Boards
It might well have been Harry's if we still had someone's expense account to stick the bill in to, but as it is all P.A. these days a wine bar of somewhat less cachet I fear, & before you ask, no we're not going on to a lap dancing club afterwards, bit too OTT in the current climate

Not so much a memorial service, more a "weren't we lucky to survive" thanksgiving...

Wolf
Spot on, FD has a habit of calling this one right.
Over the past year the shares have fallen faster than the proverbial wh@res drawers, down 60% near enough.
Logically one would think that they are due a bounce but if it does it'll likely be a dead cat one.

I saw that, you can't make it up can you ?
As it happens the Tower Hotel is very handy for me but as you might recall Oct 19 (1987) was the day of the crash, & some of us involved in it are on a mission to remember it, hence my unavailability...

I note that today there is a RNS out announcing the investors day next week.
But to give shareholders 6 days notice only could possibly indicate the board rate PI's as a rather annoying encumberance to their lives ?

I agree with your 4 points, we are currently being fed like mushrooms, however a director purchase, in market not through board options has to be good news, the only problem is we don't know just how good !

Note that a director bought a tenner today at 135p
Good news eh ?

Well after posting that they needed to start spreading the word better with Investors I have just had an invite from AJ Bell to an investors event for 3 companies, one of which is MERC, at the Tower Hotel evening of Oct 19.
And to cap it all I can't attend as I'm already committed that night !

We seem to be trying to creep a little better....
A very long way left to go though.

Scharnhorst
My sincere apologies, I thought I'd just taken your bait in the Norwegian fjord !
I am astonished, a few investor days might move the SP up a bit, considering the skin that management has in the game you'd have thought there would be plenty of puffing, but not.
Someone is bound to go bottom fishing & pop MERC in their keep net unless the board do start a bit of self promoting, as jollspec says, this is grossly undervalued.

Are you joking about MERC sponsoring the best performing share category or is it for real, it's not an award I have ever heard of hence I wonder if I have swallowed your very well laid bait ?!

Mein Fuhrer, I was fully aware of the xd date, but thanks anyway, it was the low price that attracted me, plus the probability of a further 0.5 p after Dec interims, last year they paid 0.3p twice so hopefully that double up formula will work again.
They certainly have the cash to pay it with, my real worry is that they paid too much for Northern VCT's (most of the old team from Newwcastle have gone hasta la vista, never a good sign) & Northern were great performers in their day but all of that came from MBO's which the new rules have outlawed, hence, I guess, why they wanted to sell.
I noticed that the Northern fund raise last year was a much more leisurely event than some of the more favoured vct's, Amati for instance was closed in a few hours, others in just over a week. That is my only real negative on the company though.

I felt 23.75p was too tempting just before divi pay date and the strong likelihood of another divi in the interims that I averaged down, aka topping up. They have plenty of cash, management have plenty of skin in the game, what they don't have is plenty of buyers of their shares, sadly.
You gotta be in it to win it...

FD
Indeed, it was the monthly divis that drew me to look closely at it, started buying 2 or 3 months ago & have been adding on weakness.
It certainly looks to be a good story and tightly managed too.
Funny your investments seem to be attracted towards dark liquids...

FD
And now the msm are apparently setting our tax bands the outlook is surely even bleaker ?
BTW good to run into you again...