Gotham City Research bagged another scalp yesterday with news that Spanish target, Gowex, had filed for bankruptcy. Owners of shares in Quindell will know Gotham well after it published a series of allegations in April 2014 and the shares fell over 4% yesterday and are down a further 3% today to 198p.

Its been interesting keeping an eye on Blinkx’s share price since the profits warning on July 2nd. After the shares fell over 50% on the day to 32p, they continued their slide on July 3rd, finally bottoming at 27p and then bouncing to today’s 35p. Still a 45% decline in the last week is pretty shocking.

On June 26th, Hurricane Energy, the North Sea focused fractured basement reservoir oil and gas explorer produced excellent results from its Lancaster well with the flow tests significantly exceeding expectations. The shares subsequently spiked from 28p to the mid-40p range on the day and then went as high as 54p in the next couple of days.

Falklands driller announced a deal to acquire Mediterranean Oil and Gas (MOG) back in late April. MOG today announced news from a wildcat well offshore Malta and as expected it proved to be a duster given its low chance of success.

Shares in Blinkx, the Aim-listed online video company and bulletin board favourite, are down 45% to 36p this morning after a profits warning, valuing the company at £144 million. The shares have traded as high as 230p towards the end of 2013. A shocker indeed!