Rise & Shine: What you need to know before the ASX opens

On Stockhead today – brewers saving our beer from climate change, why BHP will never get St George’s ‘freakish’ nickel belt, and an expert’s hot tech stock tips.

But first here’s what you need to know.

The day ahead

All eyes tomorrow are on the RBA’s monetary policy statement, due out shortly after lunchtime. There’s little else in terms of Australian economic data, but there are several reports from China, including consumer price index and money supply.

Baby Bunting (ASX:BBN), Tamawood (ASX:TWD) and Mayfield Childcare (ASX:MFD) are due to report earnings today, alongside REA Group (ASX:REA), the real estate group owned by News Corp.

The following companies are expected to come out of trading halts in the next 48 hours:

Friday:

MEC Resources (ASX: MMR) – legal disputes

BPH Energy (ASX: BPH) – legal disputes

Monday:

Red Mountain Mining (ASX:RMX) – project acquisition

Markets

Gold: $US1,499.65 ($2,209.28)

Silver: $US16.94 -1.05%

Oil (Brent): $US57.61 +2.67%

Oil (WTI): $US53.01 -1.74%

Coal: $US72.75 -0.07%

Iron ore 62pc fe: $US95.56 -2.96%

AUD/USD: $US0.6789 -0.19%

What got you talking yesterday

These were the five most discussed stocks among ASX investors on Tuesday August 6:

$JAT – Jatenergy

$GXY – Galaxy Resources

$LTR– Liontown Resources

$RFF – Rural Funds Group

$PLS – Pilbara Metals

No surprise Jatenergy was up there — it made an acquisition meaning it now controls its entire supply chain.

Rural Funds Group is generating chatter thanks to its response to Bonitas on the ASX yesterday — it described Bonitas as a “short activist with an acknowledged financial interest in a declining RFF security price”.

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Yesterday’s winners

That Rural Funds chatter sent their share price flying, which would appear to be to the dismay of Bonitas.

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Market Cap	Volume
THD	Thred Ltd	0.002	+100.00%	$3.6M	350.0k
E2E	Eon NRG Ltd	0.006	+50.00%	$4.6M	100.0k
EMP	Emperor Energy Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	$3.4M	3.1M
GLV	Global Vanadium Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	$8.5M	4.1M
SYT	Syntonic Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	$10.0M	4.5M
VIC	Victory Mines Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	$2.0M	1.5M
MSR	Manas Resources Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	$11.9M	19.3M
RFF	Rural Funds Group	1.92	+41.18%	$643.1M	37.7M
SCI	Silver City Minerals Ltd	0.011	+37.50%	$3.2M	7.2M
RNE	ReNu Energy Ltd	0.04	+34.62%	$4.3M	165.3k
ALT	Analytica Ltd	0.004	+33.33%	$14.1M	1.2M
CLZ	Classic Minerals Ltd	0.002	+33.33%	$8.4M	24.5M
DDT	DataDot Technology Ltd	0.008	+33.33%	$6.5M	7.5M
TAR	Taruga Minerals Ltd	0.03	+30.43%	$4.2M	360.8k
RHT	Resonance Health Ltd	0.12	+29.03%	$51.3M	4.0M
SRN	Surefire Resources NL	0.009	+28.57%	$4.5M	20.7M
SYA	Sayona Mining Ltd	0.009	+28.57%	$15.5M	14.3M
SRY	Story-I Ltd	0.02	+26.67%	$5.6M	100.0k
SKY	Sky Metals Ltd	0.1	+25.00%	$25.5M	2.0M
NSE	New Standard Energy Ltd	0.005	+25.00%	$4.1M	373.7k
SI6	Six Sigma Metals Ltd	0.005	+25.00%	$2.8M	1.0M

Yesterday’s losers

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Market Cap	Volume
UTR	Ultracharge Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	$2.1M	540.0k
LKO	Lakes Oil NL	0.002	-33.33%	$33.4M	6.5M
CAV	Carnavale Resources Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	$2.3M	500.0k
CA8	CoAssets Ltd	0.1	-25.93%	$20.7M	3.5k
TKM	Trek Metals Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	$1.3M	650
PNN	PepinNini Lithium Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	$3.7M	1.6M
MLS	Metals Australia Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	$4.4M	3.4M
DRE	Dreadnought Resources Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	$4.4M	570.7k
VP7	Velocity Property Group Ltd	0.02	-24.00%	$6.9M	412.8k
JHL	Jayex Healthcare Ltd	0.03	-22.73%	$5.9M	1.3M
AIY	Authorised Investment Fund Ltd	0.03	-22.50%	$13.1M	618.5k
OLV	Otherlevels Holdings Ltd	0.009	-18.18%	$2.6M	18.9k
SMD	Syndicated Metals Ltd	0.005	-16.67%	$3.3M	116.1k
FGO	Flamingo AI Ltd	0.005	-16.67%	$5.6M	1.3M
CZR	Coziron Resources Ltd	0.011	-15.38%	$19.6M	2.9M
NZS	New Zealand Coastal Seafoods Ltd	0.02	-14.29%	$9.5M	3.2M
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.006	-14.29%	$6.9M	7.1M
SER	Strategic Energy Resources Ltd	0.006	-14.29%	$5.7M	5.9M
SBR	Sabre Resources Ltd	0.006	-14.29%	$2.9M	11.4M