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• Alternative Networks (AIM:AN) - hardly disastrous but not very exciting!
• GEONG International – big cash trouble in little China!
• @UK (AIM:ATUK) - The Cloud Platform provider has issued an encouraging trading update.
• Northbridge Industrial Services - news of an unexpected impairment but trading remains in good shape
• Plastics Capital plc (AIM: PLA) – reassuring trading update
• KBC Advanced Technologies (AIM:KBC) – a great little business
• Belgravium Technologies (AIM:BVM) - the designer and supplier of computing solutions and services fo
• May Gurney Integrated Services (AIM:MAYG) yet another nice contract win
• Nichols (AIM:NICL) and Majestic (AIM:MJW) - a tale of 2 tipples
• Straight (AIM:STT) Directors buy when others remain fearful
• Geong – cash flow still awful and red flags building
• Pursuit Dynamics – the penny drops!
• ExxonMobil’s “The Outlook for Energy A View to 2040
• NETCALL (AIM:NET) - Sales orders significantly ahead and cash in the bank
• GEONG (AIM:GNG) – another unexpected announcement gives the share price a boost but doubts rema
• CHINA NEW ENERGY (AIM: CNE) Expansion of Biogas Contract
• Renew (AIM: RNWH) Encouraging results from a business firmly repositioned
• PLEXUS HOLDINGS (AIM:POS) Huge vote of confidence for the Group’s new subsea wellhead
• Active Energy (AIM:AEG) - shares power higher
• SHAFT SINKERS (AIM:SHFT) Interim statement reassures but shares ‘sink’ further!
• BANGO (AIM:GBO) Trading update disappoints but it’s not all gloom
• OXFORD INSTRUMENTS (OXIG) A great story continues
• JUDGES SCIENTIFIC (AIM:JDG) Earnings ahead
• Pressure Technologies (AIM:PRES) – Wake up market and look at the cycle!
• What is the value of the AIM Admission Document?
• PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGY (AIM:PTO) - Nice money if you can get it
• MANROY (AIM:MAN) - Shares get shot down
• Supergroup - it’s only growing pains!
• Does anyone really believe the European Union can co-ordinate an effective response in quick time
• Game Group (LON:GMG): Loss before tax £48.5m but interim dividend amazingly maintained
• Tidewater (TDW) – can the announcement have been any worse!
• May Gurney (AIM:MAYG) continues to impress
• Schleswig-Holstein(S-H) passes online gambling bill – positive for GVC holdings (15% yield)
• Concurrent Technologies – decent results but little growth over the past 5 years
• Nature Group – cracking contract award bodes well
• Kentz Corporation – good news on the numbers but shares now look expensive compared to others
• Lamprell - drop in order book doesn’t look good
• Polo Resources (AIM:POL) – a bargain waiting to be snapped up?
• Eros International: Trading in line
• RWS Holdings - interim results suggest more to go for
• NICHOLS - AGM statement signals all is well.
• Tikit Group - reassuring AGM statement but share price up with events?
• RWS Holdings – positive trading statement and supportive market
• London Capital Group – bad news comes in threes!
• GVC Holdings (Lon: GVC) revises and extends Betboo earn-out, whilst reaffirming its dividend policy
• Northbridge - trading in line statement pushes the broker to lift their target price
• China Shoto - a mistake with our numbers but…
• China Shoto misses by a mile - warning from China
• Portmeirion proves the old adage that tradition is simply innovation that works
• Judges Scientific comes out with another positive statement
• Kentz Corporation – great trading update
• Optare (AIM:OPE) wrong kind of snow shakes bus maker’s December
• H&T GROUP – another positive trading update but how long will the good times continue?
• CAPE - trading in line and net debt down again
• NICHOLS (AIM:NICL) Upgrades to follow strong trading update
• Abcam (AIM: ABC) No reason to worry about UK market caution
• RWS Holdings (LON:RWS) - just keeps on delivering!
• Healthcare Locums: disaster waiting to happen?
• IMMUNODIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS HOLDINGS (AIM:IDH) – the expected excellent Interim Results
• Pittards (AIM:PTD) - only the best for our fighting boys
• Majestic Wine – raise your glass for some great results once again
• HYDRO International – the Zickert Sludge Scraper hits the headlines!
• Halilburton (NYSE:HAL) Back on stage with the spotlight on them!
• I-DESIGN GROUP (LON:IDG)– cracking contract win for this innovative business
• Chevron’s commitment good news for the deepwater drillers…and Pressure Technologies
• Great results from Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT)  good read across for Titan Europe (LON:TSW)?
• IS Pharma plc – placing at a premium gives confidence and we get a dividend as well
• CVS Group (LON:CVSG) - the cash keeps flowing for the veterinary group
• Jetion Solar Holdings (LON:JHL) Overcast market conditions but looks decent value at current price!
• Morson Group (LON: MRN) - Well placed to benefit from UK’s skills shortage
• Petrel Resources plc (PET: AIM) - if anyone can crack Iraq, surely Petrel can!
• ZOO DIGITAL GROUP (LON:ZOO) - Interesting times at Zoo!
• SeaEnergy (AIM:SEA) A blow in the right direction with backing by the Crown
• Prezzo (LON:PRZ) - lots of delicious…....cash!
• LUPUS CAPITAL (AIM:LUP) – oil services shines
• TANFIELD (LON:TAN) Open Offer to raise £2m – it doesn’t look enough to us!
• ABCAM PLC (LON: ABC) More outstanding results – but what about the growing cash pile?
• Pursuit Dynamics (LON:PDX) – bizarrely worded announcement leaves us in the dark!
• Stanley Gibbons - stamps its foot down with latest acquisition
• Clyde Process Solutions – in line but predicting remains difficult
• Cambria Automobiles (AIM:CAMB) – promising pre-close but the share price keeps falling
• Vertu Motors – all rather positive but the outlook remains cautious
• Tanfield – will private investors save the day?
• Corac Group - new agreement is a big vote of confidence in the technology
• Wheat, fertilizers, what’s next? Plain old water would appear to merit greater attention
• China Shoto (LON:CHNS) -need re-charging!
• Zetar Plc (LON:ZTR) prelim results show tasty returns
• VANTIS TENON: – now it’s Administrators acquiring Administrators
• ACM Shipping: decent results and ‘unexpected’ diversification into dry cargo
• NWF Group PLC (LON:NWF) another record year, trading ahead and new long-term financing also secured
• BP –the pension fund managers should be doing more to help
• BP – the ‘Baracking’ needs to stop!
• VANTIS (AIM:VTS): Are the administrators close to falling into administration themselves?
• IS Pharma plc (AIM: ISPH), results marginally miss estimates but no big deal in the grand scheme
• Advanced Medical Solutions (AIM: AMS) seals the deal with new distributors in North America
• RWS Holdings half year report shows strong operational performance despite fluctuations in currency
• ‘Plug the damn hole’ – BP‘s day of reckoning!
• Nichols (LON:NICL) - On another day of tumbling share prices the Vimto boys shine!
• Which companies are benefiting from Gulf oil spill activity? – we offer some pointers!
• British Petroleum (LON:BP) oversold relative to cost of oil spill clear up?