Artur Ślesik

Artur Ślesik is a technology and financial markets journalist at Bez-kabli.pl, covering artificial intelligence, semiconductors, technology stocks and emerging innovations. A graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, he combines a technical background with market analysis to explain how new technologies are shaping industries, businesses and investment trends worldwide.

Zotefoams (LON:ZTF) jumps; turnover, August results next up
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Zotefoams (LON:ZTF) jumps; turnover, August results next up

The London market is closed Sunday, so Zotefoams plc last traded Friday. Hargreaves Lansdown priced the shares at 455p, up 18p or 4.12% after hours, with a 453p sell and 459p buy. The FTSE All-Share rose 0.28% that day. There wasn’t much fresh company news over the weekend. Zotefoams’ news site hasn’t posted anything new since a June 30 update, and ADVFN’s RNS feed still shows the most recent regulatory news as a June 17 director/PDMR notification.
July 6, 2026
Tribal Group (LON:TRB) posts flat week with only a slight Friday gain
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Tribal Group (LON:TRB) posts flat week with only a slight Friday gain

AIM was closed at the time of publication since it was Sunday in London. The market opens for regular trading from Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. local time. Tribal Group plc comes into the week after ending Friday at 60.40p, gaining 4.14% on the day, but unchanged for the last five sessions. Tribal’s market cap jumped by around £5.1 million from a 2.4p daily gain, calculated from the closing price and a share count of about 214.38 million. But trading volume stayed light, with just 62,856 shares moving, far below the 518,210 average, according to Investors Chronicle’s LSEG data.
July 6, 2026
Fiske closes week higher than AIM index, NAV discount remains after quiet trading
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Fiske closes week higher than AIM index, NAV discount remains after quiet trading

Fiske Plc shares finished Friday up 4.3% at 59.95p, a move that leaves the stock around 60p on most broker screens. The company, listed in London, trades as a stockbroker and wealth manager. London markets did not open on Sunday. Trading was quiet. AJ Bell quoted a 55p bid and a 65p offer, leaving a 10p spread centered at a 60p mid. That's 16.7% of the mid price. On Friday, the same page reported 9,500 shares traded. The FTSE AIM All-Share slipped 0.17% that day.
July 5, 2026
Johnson Matthey (LON:JMAT) hit £1bn cash-return question after China OK on Honeywell deal
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Johnson Matthey (LON:JMAT) hit £1bn cash-return question after China OK on Honeywell deal

Johnson Matthey Plc starts the week with one less worry over its pending deal, but the share price still shows some caution. On Friday, the chemicals company said China’s State Administration for Market Regulation approved Honeywell International Inc.’s buyout of Catalyst Technologies. With that, Johnson Matthey said all closing conditions are now satisfied. The deal is set to finish by the end of August. The shares gained 95p, or 4.95%, on Friday to finish at 2,014p. The FTSE 250 was up 0.52%. The move lifted LSE equity value by about £160 million, putting the market cap at £3.385 billion at Friday’s close. London markets were closed Sunday.
July 5, 2026
Schroder European REIT’s share price surge puts £45m gap between NAV and market ahead of wind-down vote
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Schroder European REIT’s share price surge puts £45m gap between NAV and market ahead of wind-down vote

Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust Plc jumped 5.4% on Friday to 65.6p/66.6p, but the stock’s big discount to what the board says the assets are worth hasn’t budged. The move came as the FTSE All-Share was up just 0.28%. London markets were closed for the weekend. The trust last posted a NAV of 101.0p a share, or £132.1 million, as of March 31. AJ Bell lists the market cap at £87.25 million after Friday’s move. That gives an implied equity gap of around £44.9 million, about 34% under NAV.
July 5, 2026
Kistos Holdings PLC surges 17% this week on Oman reserve bid talk
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Kistos Holdings PLC surges 17% this week on Oman reserve bid talk

London markets didn’t open Sunday, so Kistos Holdings PLC heads into the new week riding Friday’s jump. The AIM-listed energy name finished at 269p on July 3, up 14p. Volume was around 207,000 shares. AJ Bell data put the FTSE AIM 100 down 0.28% on the session. Kistos shares posted a bigger gain week-on-week. The stock finished June 26 at 230p, then climbed every day from June 29 through July 3 except for Tuesday, when shares were flat. By the end of trading Friday, Kistos was up 39p, or 17.0%, in those five sessions.
July 5, 2026
EnQuest shares: Malaysia deal details now in focus for ENQ after Brent-driven rally
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EnQuest shares: Malaysia deal details now in focus for ENQ after Brent-driven rally

EnQuest PLC opened the week with lighter trading, though the stock isn’t frozen. Friday’s close was 23.25p, down 15.1% from the June 12 high at 27.39p, but up from 22.85p at last Wednesday’s end. The London Stock Exchange holds weekday sessions, so Sunday still shows Friday’s close. Volume is the latest number to watch. The Malaysia news week saw 170.8 million shares traded, but last week volume dropped to 25.5 million. The stock edged up 1.8% even as activity dried up. Fewer traders could mean the next move depends less on June’s headline and more on things like deal approvals, oil skimming EnQuest’s hedge floor, or news on pre-emption rights.
July 5, 2026
Smarter Web Company shares lag Bitcoin as court weighs capital reserves
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Smarter Web Company shares lag Bitcoin as court weighs capital reserves

The Smarter Web Company PLC rallied into Friday, closing at 28.39p, up from a low of 24p hit on Monday. But the main thing investors are watching is the discount. The London-based web-services and Bitcoin-treasury group trades on the London Stock Exchange, open Monday to Friday, 0800 to 1630 local. London markets were closed Sunday. The stock added 5.7% Friday and is up 5.1% from last Friday’s 27p close. Still, it ended the week under the 32p net Bitcoin value per fully diluted share from SWC’s analytics page, and well below the 37p gross Bitcoin value per share. The spread is now the key market issue—whether SWC is just cheap Bitcoin exposure, or if its debt, dilution risk and Bitcoin
July 5, 2026
Autins Group (LON:AUTG) posts first profit since 2017 as AIM stock weighs recovery
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Autins Group (LON:AUTG) posts first profit since 2017 as AIM stock weighs recovery

Autins Group Plc starts the week trading close to a 52-week high after closing up 6.9% to 15.50p on Friday. The AIM-listed automotive insulation supplier last traded at that price, with London markets closed Sunday and the latest timestamp at 17:01 BST. The bigger story isn’t the day’s move. It’s the spread between where the shares trade now and Autins’ stated profit goals. At £8.46 million, the stock trades at 42.3x profit after tax before non-underlying items for FY26. The multiple falls to 10.6x for FY27 guidance, 6.0x for FY28, and 4.5x by FY29 if management can hit those targets.
July 5, 2026
Aterian PLC shares: JV value benchmark now over £5.3 million market cap after Friday rise
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Aterian PLC shares: JV value benchmark now over £5.3 million market cap after Friday rise

Aterian PLC wrapped the week higher, with shares rising 8% to finish at 27 pence on Friday. Trading volume hit 227,560 shares. The company’s market cap stood at £5.27 million, according to Investors Chronicle/LSEG data. For investors, the main point is this: Aterian’s own notional benchmark for all nine projects tied to its Lithosquare JV is around £5.8 million. That’s about 1.1x the company’s entire Friday market cap. This isn’t an official valuation—just a raw project figure that doesn’t include discovery risk, future costs, royalties, parent spending, or any net debt or cash. Still, it puts a fixed number out there for the market to compare.
July 5, 2026
CRISM Therapeutics trades just above 10p placing level ahead of key ChemoSeed trial update
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CRISM Therapeutics trades just above 10p placing level ahead of key ChemoSeed trial update

CRISM Therapeutics Corporation closed out last week trading a touch over 10p, the same price as its most recent fundraising. Investors looked at a modest move up in the AIM-listed shares as new details came out on ownership and options ahead of a clinical trial site update expected later this month. London markets didn’t open Sunday. AJ Bell last quoted CRISM at 10.50p, up 1.00p or 10.53%, with volume at 1,043,387 shares. The broker’s site listed a 10.00p sell price and 11.00p buy price. Shares opened at 9.50p and hit a 10.48p session high. Market cap stood at £8.31 million. On July 3, the same feed had the FTSE AIM All Share off 0.17%.
July 5, 2026
RC365 (LON:RCGH) jumps as June warrants go in the money after Blacksilver deal
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RC365 (LON:RCGH) jumps as June warrants go in the money after Blacksilver deal

London, July 5, 2026, 15:08 BST. RC365 shares jumped Friday, pushing the June warrants into the money after the group announced a deal with Blacksilver, sending volumes higher in London trading. RC365 Holding PLC finished last week with shares trading back above where its June financing priced. That means investors are now watching RC365's RC3.0 payment platform effort on its own terms, with focus shifting to the contract fee income versus any dilution from warrants. London stocks were closed Sunday. Regular trading for the London Stock Exchange is Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. BST.
July 5, 2026
Adnams Class B shares: 50% bid-ask spread keeps focus on debt, not mid price
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Adnams Class B shares: 50% bid-ask spread keeps focus on debt, not mid price

Adnams plc Class B opened Monday on AQSE showing a 1,600p mid price, but that’s mostly because not much is trading. Aquis quoted a bid of 1,200p and an ask of 2,000p, putting the spread at half the mid, after the last trade on Friday, July 3. The market value stood at £4.57 million with 285,800 B shares listed as tradable. The stock was quoted at 15:11 BST on Sunday, outside Aquis Exchange's usual London hours of 0800 to 1630, Monday to Friday. Aquis’s holiday calendar for 2026 lists no shutdown in July ahead of the August 31 summer bank holiday. Next scheduled session is Monday.
July 5, 2026
Gold-silver rally turns on Fed hike odds as weak jobs data trims upside math
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Gold-silver rally turns on Fed hike odds as weak jobs data trims upside math

U.S. metals futures had not begun the regular Sunday evening session at the article time after CME Group listed an Independence Day schedule running across July 2-6. CME lists NYMEX and COMEX ClearPort hours as Sunday 5 p.m. to Friday 4 p.m. CT, with a daily reporting break. Gold and silver held their post-payroll gains into the holiday weekend, but the cleaner investor signal was not the size of the bounce. It was where the bounce left prices against fresh bank targets. At late-Friday levels, gold was only about 3% below JPMorgan’s third-quarter forecast and less than 8% below its fourth-quarter forecast, while silver was already inside JPMorgan’s $60-$65 average range.
July 5, 2026
Howden Joinery (LON:HWDN) trims DIY Kitchens dilution with buyback ahead of results
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Howden Joinery (LON:HWDN) trims DIY Kitchens dilution with buyback ahead of results

London was closed Saturday, so the last trade is from Friday. Howden Joinery Group PLC closed at 833p, rising 7.5p, or 0.91%. The FTSE 100 index from AJ Bell showed a 0.25% gain. Shares moved between 824.5p and 841p on volume of 2.2 million. Market cap was about £4.58 billion. Watch the share count this week. Howdens put out 12.7 million new shares at 766p each for the DIY Kitchens buy. According to a June 22 filing, total shares stand at 554.24 million after the issue. Of those, 3.33 million are in treasury and 550.92 million carry voting rights.
July 4, 2026
Tate & Lyle stock spread stays wide following Ingredion deal as ex-div maths puts 7.7% gap in focus
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Tate & Lyle stock spread stays wide following Ingredion deal as ex-div maths puts 7.7% gap in focus

Tate & Lyle PLC is set to return to trading next week, but traders will be watching it as a takeover play instead of a regular food-ingredients name. Shares finished Friday at 559p, leaving them 36p back from Ingredion Incorporated’s 595p all-cash offer, and 42.8p under the value an acquirer would get after the final dividend went ex-div. Arb funds are looking at a cleaner number of about 601.8p here: 595p cash, plus an interim dividend up to 6.8p if paid. The 13.2p final dividend comes July 31, but holders needed to be on the register by the June 19 record date, following the ex-div on June 18.
July 4, 2026
Aviva (LON:AV) jumps past FTSE on Direct Line buyback math
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Aviva (LON:AV) jumps past FTSE on Direct Line buyback math

Aviva plc heads into next week with a firmer showing than the rest of the London market. Shares finished Friday at 668.40p, up 0.60% on the day, bringing its five-day climb to 3.3%. The FTSE 100 added 0.25% Friday, gaining 1.6% for the week. London’s market was shut Saturday. The share count usually gets less attention. Aviva’s latest filings show it’s still buying back shares daily, though in small amounts. The bigger question for EPS is still the pace of Direct Line savings. On July 1, Aviva bought 106,017 shares at an average 652.51p. On July 2, it picked up 103,255 shares at 663.61p. So around £1.38 million of shares were bought back over both sessions.
July 4, 2026
LSEG stock (LON:LSEG) outpaces FTSE as AI-risk bet shifts to July results
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LSEG stock (LON:LSEG) outpaces FTSE as AI-risk bet shifts to July results

London Stock Exchange Group plc ended the week with a five-session climb that looked stronger than the broader UK rally, but the trading pattern carried a warning: the biggest gains came before Friday, and Friday’s advance came on the lightest volume of the week. The London market was shut on Saturday, so Friday’s close was the latest traded price. LSEG closed up 0.72% at 8,670 pence on July 3. The FTSE 100 closed at 10,679.03 on Friday, up 0.2% on the day, and posted a weekly gain as financials and miners rose.
July 4, 2026
Standard Chartered gains as bank eyes digital-asset trades for fees
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Standard Chartered buyback lull tests rebound on thin trading

Standard Chartered PLC started the week coming off a rally Friday, gaining 1.53% to close at £21.22 in London trade. The FTSE 100 finished up 0.25% at 10,679.03. But Standard Chartered volume was only 1.9 million shares, well below the 50-day average of 7.9 million. Shares climbed 4.2% for the week from the June 26 close at £20.36. That beat the FTSE 100, which added 1.6%, moving from 10,508.02 to 10,679.03. Standard Chartered outperformed by about 2.6 points.
July 4, 2026
Anglo American share price rise triggers £448m swing on merger-era share count
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Anglo American (LON:AAL) gains, Teck (TSE:TECK.B) swap ratio turns thin on low turnover

Anglo American plc finished the week up, but volume told the real story. With London shut Saturday, the last close to trade was Friday at 3,785p, up 1.18% for the day and 1.8% for the week. The move ran out of steam as turnover dried up, only 1.28 million shares traded Friday compared to 7.88 million on Tuesday. That’s important because Anglo’s share price now sets the value in the merger formula. Teck Resources Limited said this week it sent out the forms needed for the Anglo deal. Teck holders get 1.3301 Anglo shares per Teck share, or exchangeable shares if they qualify in Canada. With Anglo closing Friday at its latest price, the implied value for the share part
July 4, 2026
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