Ian Pollard – Sirius Minerals #SXX Sharks Out On A Feeding Frenzy

Sirius Minerals SXX Short selling against Sirius hit a record high last week as it tried to secure funding for its huge potash mining project in North Yorkshire. Sirius hoped to raise £2.4bn by April but in September it warned that it would need to raise an additional £400m.. Last week it issued its fourth […]

Ian Pollard – Singles Day at Primark

Alibaba invented Singles Day as a shopping celebration for the unattached as opposed to the romanticism of Valentines Day. It is now the world’s biggest online sales event, exceeding the combined totals of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Yesterday saw sales hit a record $1bn in 85 seconds and the total spend for the day […]

Balfour Beatty transforming itself

Balfour Beatty BBY is increasing its interim dividend by 33% to 1.2p per share after underlying operating profit for the six months to the 30th June more than tripled from £11m to £39m, as the transformation of the company continues. Underlying revenue rose by 8% at constant exchange rates, profitability is rising and orders from […]

Sirius Minerals SXX Set to Soar After Planning Approval

Last night Sirius’ planning application for a potash mine in the North Yorks Moors National Park, was finally given the go ahead after an all day hearing.  The planning committee’s approval brought to an end years of argument and tension as to whether the project was so exceptional that it should be allowed despite the […]

Sirius Minerals SXX – The Planners Disgrace

The members of the NYMP planning committee are complete amateurs. They have no experience and they have no qualifications which would enable them to reach a decision even about the erection of a garage. They are all  appointees, political or otherwise, who have managed to avoid upsetting the people who matter. Yet here they are […]

Where Are They Now – The Golden Oldies of 2010 (1)

The simple answer is, that as with Amur Minerals (AMC), mentioned in a separate post ten days ago, some of those golden oldies of 2010 which promised to make shareholders rich overnight, are showing definite signs that hopes and expectations may, given enough time,  begin to bear fruit. Sirius Minerals (SXX) has already stirred itself […]