Now, this one was just awarded the Aim company of the year. Its a bit likeMears but it has a large GAS SERVICE section and the profits from this outfit would appear to be less healthy than from its Public Service arm. Does anyone have any knowledge of this company which is not cheap BUT could be on its way to making a lot more mazuma.

for the moment yes, though i accept it may well have been the wrong call, even if the
bid book remains longer than the offer ..... on the other hand, FOGL is heading back towards the southern basin again!

the gods are trying to look after me, for i'm effectively back at b/e
i wouldn't be at all surprised to see some pretty aggressive bear closing later on, which will suit me just fine

cynic or should we call you Gunga Din well done looking good!

thanks hali ..... very well in the money now, but monitoring carefully

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out at 29.95 with a very nice profit given the very few hours i was "invested" .... it may prove to be a bit premature, but i really don't care!

cynic yes be careful if you strip out goodwill, intangibles etc they have a negative net worth perhaps they paid too much for their acquisitions.Don't know how their lending banks hope to recover their exposure with sales declining rapidly, reminds us of Worthington(now MSS).

I'm still in from 19.8 and holding for now, but may not be much longer. Back in auction....

out after auction @ 33.1

appears to be premature!

Balls of steel or brains of a rocking horse - not sure which - but well done :-)

definitely the latter skinny! :)

now, where to short it....:)

Don't you mean he's hung like a budgie, Skinners?

:o)

Oh, well done Splatso.

ta hilarsky.

This has been a good short 4 me... but I think this has great potential of going up now...
So it's BUY time for CNT at 39p.

Now out

Broker Collins Stewart had it as a sell yesterday at 34p.

City watchdog launches probe into Connaught
LONDON | Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:29am BST

LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Services Authority has launched a wide-ranging probe into social housing services company Connaught Plc, over several issues including a failure to provide potentially price-sensitive market data, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE66Q00320100727

HSBS has sold >6m of its holding and another company whose name i didn't recognise dumped their whole 1m holding

for myself, am happy to be short again

I took a small position today (short side). IMO any rescue deal will be that - priced as a 'rescue deal', in other words a huge debt for equity swap. I'll see this to single figures from this position.

will this affect Mears? i really dont wanna eat my hat. i may have to of course.
such is the market. anyway my boring stock is Booker. LoL is it headed same way? i have know idea.
regards
jkd