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

On Stockhead today, the West Australian gold stocks tipped by Arlington Group Asset Management’s Roger Breuer, has COVID-19 marked the beginning of the end for fossil fuel consumption and Australian consumers’ spending intentions post COVID-19 lockdowns.

But first…

The day ahead

Today’s economic data includes monthly private sector credit, weekly payroll jobs and wages in Australia as well as ANZ-Roy Morgan’s consumer confidence survey.

The following companies are in trading halts and are expected to exit in the next two trading days:

Tuesday:

MG Unit Trust (ASX:MGC) – EGM vote outcome
Whitebark Energy (ASX:WBE) – capital raising
Lotus Resources (ASX:LOT) – executive changes
Mincor Resources (ASX:MCR) – capital raising

Wednesday:
Synertec Corporation (ASX:SOP) – corporate update & Capital raising
Todd River Resources (ASX:TRT) – tenement acquisition
Titanium Sands (ASX:TSL) – project update
Great Southern Mining (ASX:GSN) – price query response
Amplia Therapeutics (ASX:ATX) – preclinical toxicology study results
Mineral Commodities (ASX:MRC) – capital raising
Victory Mines (ASX:VIC) – acquisition and capital raising
Nex Metals (ASX:NME) – capital raising
Cygnus Gold (ASX:CY5) – capital raising
Hipo Resources (ASX:HIP) – capital raising
Corazon Mining (ASX:CZN) – capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US1,772.82 ($2,509.02) (+0.12%)

Silver: $US17.86 (+0.62%)

Oil (WTI): $US39.63 (+2.96%)

Oil (Brent): $US41.66 (+2.33%)

Coal: $US54.00 (-0.97%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US103.23 (+0.15%)

AUD/USD: $US0.6868 (+0.04%)

Bitcoin: $US9,178.72 (+0.78%)

What got you talking yesterday

Yesterday on Twitter it was our latest Zero to Hero. This time we profiled West African Resources (ASX:WAF) and their journey from its $6.5 million IPO to becoming an $800 million producer.

In June 2010, a young team established greenfields explorer West African Resources, raising $6.5m in an IPO. A decade later, this freshly minted +200,000oz per annum gold miner has a market cap of +$800m and growing. $WAF #asx #ausbiz
https://t.co/H32kdwDc0K

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) June 28, 2020

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Yesterday’s winners

Note: Stocks in yellow made market-moving announcements yesterday

Yesterday’s losers