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'There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data. A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements'

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibillion-dollar-market-for-your-phones-location-data

Nasty...never allow location data unless your bank or similar needs it.

The RSPCA will be after you if they find out you are letting your Yeti drink diesel.

Excellent... bloody South Africans!

White man van is a dodgy geezer - he will nick the petrol or buy it on the black market.

From Bloomberg's Supply Lines email:

"Beijing is scrambling to secure energy supplies and restore electricity with autumn harvest underway in the world’s biggest agricultural producer. Regions among the worst hit are northeastern provinces such as Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang — where about half of China’s corn and soybeans are produced.

Without power, China will struggle to handle crops from corn to soy to peanuts and cotton, testing Beijing’s plans to boost the nation’s agricultural production and guaranteeing food supplies for its 1.4 billion people. Over the past year, China had to import a record amount of agricultural products due to a domestic shortage, driving prices and global food costs to multiyear highs."

Lopsided rockets do not fly well...

The phrase 'LEVELLING UP' comes from computer games. Does Doris think the red-wall voters are kids?

I queried the LS ownership in July and received this [partly edited] reply:

'MAFL owns 75% of Redcorp, while Ascendant own 25% with the option to earn-in up to 50% by spending a total of US$9.0M and paying us an additional US$1.0M (June 22, 2022). To go to 80% Ascendant must complete a feasibility study and pay MAFL an additional US$2.5M by Dec 22, 2022. Redcorp owns 85% of Lagoa Salgada. The remaining 15% is owned by EDM, a state owned Portuguese company. We have a right of first refusal on EDM’s stake. They have a free carry to a feasibility study.'

'10 billion barrels' - go away deramper. SS said it is between 50 and 100 billion barrels. Just listen to this BBC clip:

https://youtu.be/a2h2kWmf5iA?t=85

If you do not believe The Dear Leader you do not deserve to be invested in the company with assets of National Importance.

VAL - they have been trying to get someone to pay for a clinical trial of their compounds for years but no pharma was signed up yet. I doubt they ever will as science has progressed and they might have 'missed the bus' but it is a share that attracts speculators when people repeatedly post along the lines of a deal will bring millions / hundreds of millions; our peers are worth 10x or 20x etc.

And then the money runs out and they issue more shares again and again until they consolidate yet again. They have consolidated by 125 to 1 twice; a share bought a decade ago would need to be worth £6000 for a punter to break even.... the company would need to be worth £400 billion!

mick-b,

I am not so sure about that... there is a growing demand for housing from investors / investment companies seeking growth and / or inflation protection. Until Labour makes themselves electable again, the Tories have no reason to offer reform. With insufficient housing stock, the demand remains even if the buying pool shifts.

And with higher wages thanks to inflation and an artificially low interest rate policy, the 'man in the street' will be able to service loans on higher property prices. A softening of prices, maybe; a crash seems unlikely to me.

'One of Europe’s Top Stock Pickers Is Buying Swedish Small Caps'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/one-of-europe-s-top-stock-pickers-is-buying-swedish-small-caps?srnd=premium-europe

Some like it as it wipes out debt but not good if you have assets to protect...

Bloomberg article as well today - maybe they are doing PR before a fund raise. This article has more depth:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-30/iron-battery-breakthrough-could-eat-lithium-s-lunch

Bed Bath & Beyond Serves a Warning for All Holiday Shoppers

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-30/bed-bath-beyond-sends-up-a-retail-warning-flare?srnd=premium-europe

Big drop on profit warning; surely our high street will be just as bad? Some may get burnt...

SCMP is a pro regime website, so this article is more interesting: 'China’s population could halve within the next 45 years, new study warns'

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3150699/chinas-population-could-halve-within-next-45-years-new-study

They will not be as able to make the cheap stuff we consume, nor will they want as much as we export. Africa's time in the sun is coming.

'Suspect in ATM attacks blew himself up filming tutorial, says Europol'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/30/suspect-in-atm-attacks-blew-himself-up-filming-tutorial-says-europol

Access the link with a UK IP and you must log in with your BBC ID; use a VPN and make your IP address show as Russian and no ID is needed. Free science for Russians but not the British?

Another possibility - 'Iron-Flow Batteries Could Knock Lithium-Ion Off of Its Number-One Spot'

https://interestingengineering.com/iron-flow-batteries-could-knock-lithium-ion-off-of-its-number-one-spot

The winner has yet to emerge...

98.5% below 10p - well done SS

Respect to The Dear Leader for making it so cheap for all to benefit from the ability to buy cheap shares.