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Agree. PR is woeful. e.g. Shell announcement today - where exactly does ITM fit in?

May's been good to us. The month, not Mrs. Up 50 per cent. Apart from general optimisim and the sworn duty of all speccy retail - including me - to be bullish anyone got any hard news why?

That's AIM on Friday afternoon for you. Get used to it. More concerning is the general pattern of trading and price movement this week with no specific news. Odd.

Useful comment TA. Assume you're not a buyer nor a follower then?

Does anybody else think FDI is turning around and has good prospects now? Today's quarterlies show costs under control, engineering running well , the general market improving and the beginnings of a flow of larger stones. Some more good stones and we should see a big lift in theSP.

So what do you reckon? Another low price placing? Which someone close will get dirt cheap at these prices while the rest of us take the dilution hit. Still worth a hold in my view though some real progess on new sites etc would help!.

Don't know about anyone else but the core metrics reported in the first half numbers seem OK to me. Nothing flashy but the general progress seems to indicate costs and operations under control. At this SP in my view it's a cheap call option on large diamond finds.

Query - `842m signed agreement with Axovant'. Why is this not a done deal?

Perhaps the price will move when all these strategies and plans harden up into real, income generating projects.

Never underestmate the incompetence of journalists. Eveery detail has tp be spelled out, repeated and reinforced. On the other hand I've thought for some time PHE have a really great story here which is being undersold on the PR front. A good PR would have nailed this story more accuraterly and made sure it gets wider coverage.

At the moment this deal has around 17 per cent of existing shareholders behind it, including BoD. It's a recommended offer, not approved. It's a good deal, very good, but Earthport has a lot of big name financial customers behind it too and it's not beyond the realms of possibility a counter (higher) offer may come in. Don't sell too soon!

There's another angle here for innovative tech like this which I haven't seen mentioned - fleet vehicles. When LPG and then electric vehicles were being introduced the commercial and operational breakthrough came with fleets. Especially urban delivery vans. Most of these are based in big depots, as are buses etc. Your one acre+ requirement is easily provided there. And with urban emmissions a major environmental issue that works here. But let's not get carried away yet. This may be breakthrough tech but as my wise old boss used to say - the desert is littered with the bones of pioneers. ,

There was always going to be an initial period where TP and ICAP sorted themselves out. THe overlap between them was huge. Bonds now on the move and FX all over the place should be very good for business. Not sure how they'll sort out the voice vs platform issues. But sufrely the sale of ICAP's NEX should generate something back, maybe as a windfall divvi. Payments came through this month. Or am I missing something?

Wonder if that says anything about US developments?

Unlikely, unless someone is being very illegal as this would be a 'beneficial ownership' and show up in an RNS. Personaly I think we're still clearing out the small fry from the penny stock spec. days.
Just be thankful we've got a good buying opp.

This stinks. A small placing like this takes about three months to arrange. Someone, or more than one, has been selling down into the placing. Typical small AIM company behaviour. Hopefully that nonsense is over and we can now see some serious effort made to get this concept of standly power sites up and running and ready for switch on. But this winter? I'm a bull but I'd like to see this management actually get on with the job of building and commissioning working sites.

Possibly but the new tax and liability implications don't account for the fact that GVC has been in steady decline since the MGM deal was announced in July. THe quarterlies since then were pretty good too. Kenny A has been a very shrewd operatorr all the way from inception so I find this decline a bit puzzling. Maybe the Ladbroke deal was a bit of a poison chalice in retrospect but surely the MGM deal shoud be seriously valuable. Where's the update on that?

Five million at 0.67 was a great deal for someone today!

You're quite right rfsh - my mistake.

Going to ride this out I think. Too good a company with major prospects still to dump. THough it would be nice to get some clarity on the Ladbroke's real estate. I'd like to see Kenny dump that sooner rather than later.

This is a bit worrying, two days before ex-div! Small volumes so possibly the Ladbroke's holders getting out. Anyone got any better ideas?