Rise and Shine: Everything you need to know about the ASX on Friday

It’s Friday on Stockhead.

To catch you up:

The ASX benchmark made it five straight retreats ending -0.3% lower at the close.  Utilities and telcos made meagre gains, but even the ASX goldies couldn’t put a shine on, the XGD Gold index closing -0.2% down.

US stocks rose overnight, huddling round the warmth of a double digit gains for Meta Platforms (META) after The Zuckerberg delivered more strong quarterly results.

The ASX copper miners rounded off a massive day of March production results on Wednesday, with Jervois and Nickel Industries grabbing all the headlines, but a lot more was happening backstage, Josh Chiat reports.

But first the day ahead.

TRADING HALTS

The following stocks went into trading halts and are expected out in the coming days:

Akora Resources (ASX:AKO) – Capital raising.

Mako Gold (ASX:MKG) – Capital raising.

Fatfish Group (ASX:FFG) – Capital raising.

Killi Resources (ASX:KLI) – Capital raising.

QMines (ASX:QML) – Equity raising.

Emyria (ASX:EMD) – Placement announcement.

Omnia Metals (ASX:OM1) – Capital raising.

Legend Mining (ASX:LEG) – Fund raising.

RareX (ASX:REE) – Resource upgrade for its Cummins Range project.

Resource Base (ASX:RBX) – Capital raising.

Peak Rare Earths (ASX:PEK) – Capital raising.

Tymlez Group (ASX:TYM) – Application to be removed from the official list of ASX.

Mayur Resources (ASX: MRL) – Financing proposal.

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1983.53 (-0.34%)

Silver: $US24.01 (-0.25%)

Nickel (3mth): $US24,025/t (+2.02%)

Copper (3mth): $US9002.50/t (+0.27%)

Oil (WTI): $US74.48 (+0.55%)

Oil (Brent): $US78.11 (+0.24%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US107.50/t (-0.94%)

AUD/USD: 0.6610 (+0.14%)

Bitcoin: $US29,100 (+0.24%)

 

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Also, be sure to check in preopen each day for ‘Market highlights and 5 ASX small caps to watch’, and 10.30am for our daily ‘10 at 10’ column — a live summary of winners & losers at the opening bell.

 

ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

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Future First Technologies (ASX:FFT) up 66.7% due to the company dropping a pearler of a quarterly, with highlights that include:

  • 9% increase YTD in Annual Recurring License Revenue (ARR): $3.0m
  • 64% increase on FY22 Q3 Total Revenue: $1,054k
  • 49% increase on FY22 Q3 Licensing Revenue: $675k
  • 40% increase on FY23 Q2 Closing Cash Balance: $835k
  • 56% decrease on FY22 Q3 Operating Expenses: $1,254k

​​EZZ Life Science (ASX:EZZ), closed out the session up 38% on strong results.

EZZ’s operating cash flows increased by a massive 371% over the previous quarter to $2.8m, leaving the company in a strong cash position at $12.3 million, an increase of about $2.7 million compared to the previous quarter.

Micro Capper Linius Tech (ASX:LNU) bumped out a 33% surge on a massive volume spike, after announcing a deal that will see its Whizzard product used in the IMG Replay service, “virtualising the entire IMG Replay archive to make it more searchable and usable”.

IMG Replay represents the fourth new client signed by LNU in the past five months and is the largest contract to date. The new customer for Linius Tech is a licensing and video clip production platform, that appears to specialise in historic sporting event footage.

 

TODAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

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