Evil Knievil

The Evil Diaries: Mitie and Pantheon

The Evil Diaries: Mitie and Pantheon

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Mitie (MTO) bought back last Friday a further 105,000 shares – this time at 241p. This is part of a share support operation since the price keeps going down. After all, if it were the case that MTO is seriously undervalued the management would be justified in buying millions at a time. Pathetic really. *****…

The Evil Diaries: Chemours, Tesla & Tony Blair

The Evil Diaries: Chemours, Tesla & Tony Blair

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It’s taken a while but latish last night Chemours (CC on NYSE) collapsed 25% as a result of one litigant’s testicular cancer derived from Teflon chemical which, somehow, has found itself in waters in Ohio and West Virginia. The adverse judgement is of the order of $5m and will be multiplied since the judge reckons…

The Evil Diaries: Petro Matad, Lord Heseltine and Gold

The Evil Diaries: Petro Matad, Lord Heseltine and Gold

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Things got interesting latish yesterday in Petro Matad (MATD), now capitalised at £4.5m given the shares in issue of 280m at 1.65p. Essentially, Shell is due to cough up $10m by way of an exit fee and have not yet paid over the necessary. This is because there is no point in doing so if…

The Evil Diaries: “Time to Wheel on the Tumbrels”

The Evil Diaries: “Time to Wheel on the Tumbrels”

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Time to wheel on the tumbrels: We can stick the lead traitors such as Cameron and Carney in the back and cart them off to Tower Hill. But there is a long, long list of collaborators. Me? I’ll be a tricoteuse. Boris seems to be a certainty to emerge as the next prime minister but…

The Evil Diaries: Tesla and Churchill Mining

The Evil Diaries: Tesla and Churchill Mining

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It took some time to get a proper attack of the wobbles but Tesla (TSLA) finally obliged last night closing down $25 at $192 after hours on the news of Tesla’s scheme to merge with Solar City (SCTY), another Musk promotion. Apparently, Musk’s argument is that the sort of people who buy Tesla motor cars…

The Evil Diaries: Churchill Mining and Circassia Pharma

The Evil Diaries: Churchill Mining and Circassia Pharma

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I first encountered Jacob Rees-Mogg about fifteen years ago when he, his father and I were speakers at an investment conference. I reckoned Jacob was a bit of a prig. Then, about eighteen months ago, I saw him on Channel 4 speaking at a Bingo meeting of northern women. I thought his tone was condescending…

The Evil Diaries: Fevertree and Purplebricks

The Evil Diaries: Fevertree and Purplebricks

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One of the weekend’s colour mags featured a photo of a lush valley somewhere and said to contain the quinine tree. The pic was taken by Tim Warrilow, one of the founders of Fevertree (FEVR) as illustration of something. As J D Salinger would have said this is pure horse. However, I foresee an extension…