10 at 10: These 10 stocks are looking optimistic today

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade.

It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms.

The market opens at 10am (eastern time) and the data is taken at 10:15am, once every stock has commenced trading.

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made potentially market-moving announcements:

One sentence in Australian Pacific Coal’s (ASX: AQC) announcement about planning approval for the Dartbrook coal mine sent it plunging. Namely, the sentence revealing the rejection of its request for another five years of mine life.