10 at 10: These ASX stocks are thriving despite the sell off this morning

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data.

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 ASX stock has commenced trading.

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

As at 10.15am, the ASX 200 is only down 0.50% which is only a fraction of yesterday’s drop of 2.1% but nonetheless there is more red than green.

Comet Resources (ASX:CRL) rose after telling shareholders material produced from its Springdale graphite project performed exceptionally well in benchmark testing.

Microcap oil play Bass Oil (ASX:BAS) told shareholders it received approval from the South Australian government for its acquisition of oil assets in the Cooper Basin.

BNK Bank (ASX:BNK) rose after hinting at some M&A activity. Specifically it told shareholders it received interest and was going to undertake a strategic review.