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But they don't have Adam Bond joaung!

Or maybe they won't Southerhay. They've got years of form for such behaviour, which is why I don't believe a word that comes out of Bond's mouth and neither should anyone else.

It's not baseless though Trev. It's fact and it's what AFC do. They build up everyone's expectations and then fail to deliver. It's been going on since the Dunsfold to Dundee dash!

A newsless week as I predicted on Monday and after all the hype around Speedy, Acciona, ABB by haggis, there's simply nothing to report! Worrying!

Whatever the reason for such a big trade Daniel, I'm becoming increasingly concerned here. The SP is currently down 2.3% on the NASDAQ with no sign of a rebound. The CEO has a duty to at least try to avert such decimation of shareholder value but this does not appear to be happening. The Microsoft deal, whilst interesting, is a jam tomorrow story and has evidently done nothing for the current SP. The fact we haven't heard any rumours of a takeover at this historically low

valuation, is also a bit worrying. I for one would welcome that as things stand.

UT trade for nearly 47 million shares at under 66p! I wonder is that of any significance in terms of institutional investors dumping their shares? It's a bit worrying that it was priced at the day's low!

Oh, it's real alright Jax and very annoying. If the Q3 results in February are not good, god knows where this will end up! Some folks keep predicting £1 a share but what's going to propel it there? As far as I can see it's full on negative at the minute.

Yanks dragging it lower. This company is either in serious trouble or it's pure price manipulation at its worst. It'll teach me for looking for a decent dividend income. What a trap!

I know what you mean Construct. AFC are experts at that "behind the scenes" stuff you mentioned! Maybe one day, some of it will break cover!

I guess you like being shafted Bumble! Your passive acceptance of the complete failure by Bond to deliver what he promised, speaks volumes. You're simply an apologist for AFC's many failures to the extent that you even try to convince us that AlkaMem is still a runner. You're either deluded or masochistic! Maybe both! That's it, you're a deluded masochist! Lol

That's true fleccy but the merger with 3 is a long shot with the regulators potentially vetoing it and the disposals seem to be happening at a glacial pace. Clearly, the market remains unimpressed. There's no bullish rhetoric forthcoming from Margherita to back their agenda up, like there is from TE at RR. He's been talking a lot, which I'm sure has contributed to the exponential rise in RR's SP. Margherita is a shrinking violet in comparison. She needs to show that she believes in VOD. Incidentally, if she bought a load of shares at this price, it would be a massive vote of confidence in the company and could help to propel the SP out of the current doldrums. Complete silence is not the answer.

Maybe we'll get a Mrs. haggis and some little haggis's if you do! Lol

I thought you didn't know a haggis?

You'd think if haggis had such a high investing IQ, he'd be enjoying the huge rise over at Ceres Power this morning but instead, he's on here ramping this dog. He, like the rest of us, has clearly no idea!

You make a good point fleccy but to use the RR analogy, it only sprung into life under a new and radical CEO in Tufan Erginbilgic. Vodafone on the other hand has persisted with an in house appointee who the market clearly perceives as carrying on with more of the same. Vod needs radical change to get out of this hole and maybe that will only come with a change at the top to someone who can shake things up and deliver growth. I'd say VOD is currently a burning platform!

Another day, another downgrade, this time Berenberg from 80p to 75p! It's incessant! Maybe it is time for Margherita to consider her position as it's been downhill all the way since she took over and she's been in post, if you include when she was acting CEO, for over a year.

Now up 46%, wow! This is what we all dream of here but unfortunately all we get is bluff and bluster. It does show, however, what could happen to the SP if AFC were ever to make a proper commercial deal that promised to bring in significant amounts of money for the company. I guess one can dream.

Ceres Power up 36% as I type, having struck a manufacturing deal with Delta in Taiwan to the tune of £42 million. Meanwhile, over at AFC its business as usual i.e still in R&D mode.

Looks like normal service has resumed here as the memory of Microsoft deal fades and the SP resumes its downward trajectory. How depressingly predictable. It was encouraging, however, to hear about said deal as it showed that VOD are still trying and as it is to be developed over a 10 year period, it's proof that they intend to be around for a long time. Maybe by 2034 the SP will have recovered!

Up! I suspect AFC's shareprice will not react well to this news, especially as Bond continues to keep the market and shareholders in the dark as to what's happening with the expected sales to Speedy etc.