Lunchtime ASX small cap wrap: Who made the world a better place today?

Instead, he lost 20kg, says he’s healthier than when he started, and even washed his first post-fast meal down with a beer because “ after 46 days he still isn’t sick of it”.

If that’s a hoax, it’s a sick one.

Stock markets also shed some weight this week after the US President called for increased tariffs on Chinese goods because China “broke the deal”. Stocks plummeted, but then rebounded after Trump said he received a “beautiful letter” from the Chinese leader, again raising hopes that a deal may be done.

What a world we live in. So much drama, and probably not the greatest week for Uber to go public.

Locally, the ASX Small Ords index – which measures the health of the small cap space — fell 1.5 points in morning trade to 2793.2, which means a 2.6 per cent drop since the start of May.

Here’s all your small cap winners and losers to lunchtime on Friday, May 10:

GOING UP

9 Spokes (ASX:9SP) has gifted its shareholders a golden Friday with a piece of news that sent its share price stratospheric.

Bank of New Zealand (BNZ — and owned by NAB) had “gone live” with a white label version of software that aggregates apps used by small businesses, such as payroll and accounting, so users can see all of the data on one platform.

Pure Alumina (ASX:PUA) was up another 19 per cent this morning after a stellar day yesterday. Its Canadian acquisition had successfully run its HPA pilot plant at full capacity, enabling it to deliver almost 10 tonnes of 99.999 per cent (5N) high purity alumina over the past two weeks.

But the biggest winner is Genetic Technologies (ASX:GTG), which has developed two new tests for colorectal and breast cancer.

It followed a period of “substantial scientific research and genetic product development” and Genetic is now working on a commercialisation and distribution strategy for the products.

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks at 12pm on Friday, May 10.

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Ticker	Name	Price	% Chg	Market Cap	Volume
GTG	GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES	0.012	71	$29,900,000	133M
9SP	9 SPOKES INTERNATIONAL	0.027	69	$21,500,000	59M
RXH	REWARDLE	0.003	50	$1,600,000	219.3K
AYR	ALLOY RESOURCES	0.003	50	$4,700,000	330.0K
GAL	GALILEO MINING LED	0.185	42	$22,900,000	584.8K
MLS	METALS AUSTRALIA	0.002	33	$5,400,000	500.0K
CAD	CAENEUS METALS	0.002	33	$3,700,000	1.0M
CTO	CITIGOLD CORP	0.005	25	$10,800,000	400.0K
KEY	KEY PETROLEUM	0.005	25	$7,700,000	250.0K
CAZ	CAZALY RESOURCES	0.023	21	$6,000,000	89.6K
QGL	QUANTUM GRAPHITE	0.003	20	$22,700,000	10.0M
HWK	HAWKSTONE MINING	0.024	20	$13,700,000	911.2K
PUA	PURE ALUMINIA	0.054	19	$10,100,000	4.6M
AEE	AURA ENERGY	0.01	19	$11,500,000	27.0M
CLB	CANDY CLUB HOLDINGS	0.13	18	$18,100,000	116.5K
JCS	JCURVE SOLUTIONS	0.04	18	$13,100,000	175.4K
IAM	INTIGER GROUP	0.007	17	$11,700,000	1.3M
E2E	EON NRG	0.007	17	$4,600,000	700K
ADN	ANDROMEDA METALS	0.007	17	$9,500,000	1.7M
PNN	PEPINNINI LITHIUM	0.035	17	$4,300,000	155.2K

GOING DOWN

The losers column is a non-event, dominated by micro caps losing ground on no news.

Ticker	Name	Price	% Chg	Market Cap	Volume
PCL	PANCONTINENTAL OIL AND GAS	0.002	-33	$10,800,000	965.0K
MEB	MEDBIO	0.009	-25	$2,200,000	1.1M
ANL	AMANI GOLD	0.002	-20	$7,400,000	105.0K
TRM	TRUSCOTT MINING	0.008	-20	$943,000	24.7K
MRQ	MRG METALS	0.004	-20	$2,700,000	82.5K
MGT	MAGNETITE MINES	0.004	-20	$3,000,000	1.0M
DDT	DATADOT TECHNOLOGY	0.009	-18	$7,300,000	752.0K
BNL	BIG STAR ENERGY	0.005	-17	$1,700,000	69.7K
CUX	CROSSLAND STRATEGIC METALS	0.005	-17	$5,100,000	544.4K
VAL	VALOR RESOURCES	0.005	-17	$9,500,000	2.4M
TRL	TANGA RESOURCES	0.003	-17	$3,200,000	794.7K
ADV	ARDIDEN	0.003	-14	$5,000,000	150.0K
IDA	INDIANA RESOURCES	0.03	-14	$3,200,000	2.3K
WRM	WHITE ROCK MINERALS	0.006	-14	$9,800,000	900.0K
SIS	SIMBLE SOLUTIONS	0.043	-16	$4,300,000	252.7K
XTD	XTD	0.026	-13	$3,500,000	214.7K
EQE	EQUUS MINING	0.007	-13	$6,300,000	15.4K
MBK	METALS BANK	0.007	-13	$6,200,000	516.1K
TGO	TRITANIUM GROWTHOPS	0.35	-13	$48,700,000	1.5K

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks at 12pm on Friday, May 10.

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That’s all.

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Oh, alright then. Apparently Chelsea will play Arsenal in something called the Europa League final after winning their semi on penalties this morning.

Highlights were hard to come by, but here’s David Luiz saving the day in quite spectacular fashion: