On ASX markets, local stocks continue to track sideways with little volatility so far this week.

On the black market, things have taken a turn for the worse following a global bust (including Australia) that resulted in more than 800 arrests.

It’s no secret that criminal networks seek encrypted channels for communication purposes. And since 2018, outlaw groups were drawn to an anonymous platform called ANOM.

But as it turned out, ANOM was a plant by FBI investigators specifically for the purpose of tracking criminal behaviour.

The wave of arrests followed a three-year surveillance program comprising more than 25 million messages, authorities said.

Back on legal markets, the ASX is currently on track to post three straight days with a percentage change of less than 0.2% (up or down) — a feat it hasn’t achieved since last July.

Ahead of all-important US inflation data on Thursday night, data this morning showed rising commodity costs saw producer-price inflation in China rise to the highest level since 2008.
 

WINNERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks at 12pm Wednesday, June 9:

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Code Name Price % Change Volume Market Cap
COD Coda Minerals Ltd 0.825 132 13,585,371 $24,744,822
TRN Torrens Mining 0.28 87 7,666,327 $10,232,241
ZEU Zeus Resources Ltd 0.056 65 15,906,682 $6,125,100
BIR BIR Financial Ltd 0.039 56 15,209,849 $2,031,259
8VI 8Vi Holdings Limited 3.7 31 52,061 $118,931,870
SIT Site Group Int Ltd 0.013 30 2,153,000 $8,412,451
CDD Cardno Limited 0.9 24 1,587,434 $281,893,166
AQS Aquis Ent Ltd 0.21 24 429,548 $6,072,260
SIO Simonds Grp Ltd 0.62 20 430,430 $74,078,452
GES Genesis Resources 0.014 17 687,200 $9,394,096
GTR GTI Resources 0.0255 16 16,845,307 $14,179,396
AQC Auspaccoal Ltd 0.15 15 63,624 $6,563,025
LCT Living Cell Tech. 0.015 15 6,797,527 $7,428,733
ENX Enegex Limited 0.155 15 1,227,212 $19,509,809
PTX Prescient Ltd 0.155 15 2,761,304 $86,474,656
MEB Medibio Limited 0.008 14 26,904,284 $12,565,430
PRO Prophecy Internation 0.525 14 31,088 $29,465,730
FTZ Fertoz Ltd 0.066 14 517,940 $10,678,536
PDZ Prairie Mining Ltd 0.25 14 36,568 $50,238,120
CR9 Corellares 0.052 13 910,538 $14,535,995
STK Strickland Metals 0.035 13 7,258,748 $22,792,829
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Gains this morning were led by junior explorers Coda Minerals (ASX:COD) and Torrens Mining (ASX:TRN) — joint venture partners at the Elizabeth Creek IOCG project in South Australia.

COD more than doubled while TRN is up 87% — gains which will make sense when you read Reuben Adams’ morning resources summary titled ‘Have these explorers discovered the next Olympic Dam?’

Mining stocks dominated this morning’s winners list, and China-backed Zeus Resources (ASX:ZEU) was another stock that rose sharply after securing an $810,000 capital raise and inking a deal with Singapore-based exploration company Cloud Securities.
 

LOSERS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks at 12pm Wednesday, June 9:

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Code Name Price % Change Volume Market Cap
CLZ Classic Min Ltd 0.0015 -25 34,192,095 $40,221,264
EVE EVE Investments Ltd 0.004 -20 1,609,150 $19,215,709
BLG Bluglass Limited 0.045 -20 6,486,054 $40,464,364
CCE Carnegie Cln Energy 0.0025 -17 1,051,611 $44,107,721
RNO Rhinomed Ltd 0.125 -14 30,000 $36,802,324
OVT Ovato Limited 0.0035 -13 24,689,000 $48,851,249
AD1 AD1 Holdings Limited 0.036 -12 136,980 $24,782,712
EQR Eq Resources Limited 0.023 -12 2,883,901 $34,147,220
POS Poseidon Nick Ltd 0.075 -11 16,907,708 $235,990,848
NWE Norwest Energy NL 0.009 -10 1,154,769 $50,734,434
ACW Actinogen Medical 0.145 -9 7,868,818 $265,689,368
8CO 8Common Limited 0.15 -9 26,649 $33,084,110
IXU Ixup Limited 0.155 -9 712,247 $119,672,469
SRJ SRJ Technologies 0.22 -8 10,000 $17,759,798
TMG Trigg Mining Ltd. 0.11 -8 107,236 $7,466,071
CGB Cann Global Limited 0.055 -8 5,401,567 $30,835,532
MSR Manas Res Ltd 0.011 -8 2,520,386 $39,787,483
AJJ Asian Amer Medical 0.034 -8 1,500 $12,866,852
AO1 Assetowl Limited 0.006 -8 925,000 $5,274,783
BRK Brookside Energy Ltd 0.024 -8 30,139,025 $73,083,742
DCX Discovex Res Ltd 0.006 -8 1,114,286 $16,696,316
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