On Stockhead today, all you need to know about niobium, 16 HR stocks primed to cash in on the unemployment crisis, and have these 2022 IPOs been oversold?

But first, the day ahead.

 

TRADING HALTS

The following companies went into trading halts yesterday and are expected out in the next few days:

Winsome Resources (ASX:WR1) – After hitting the jackpot last week, WR1 is holding a capital raise.

Volt Resources (ASX:VRC) – Volt is charging up for a capital raise of its own.

Lycaon Resources (ASX:LYN) – Lycaon’s on hold ahead of a proposed acquisition.

Castillo Copper (ASX:CCZ) – A two-banger from Castillo, taking a nap due to a price query from the ASX, and impending geological results from Broken Hill, which definitely won’t say “Hill remains broken. Plz advise”.

New Zealand King Salmon Investments (ASX:NZK) – Announcement pending on the Marlborough District Council’s Blue Endeavor decision.

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1,707.87 (+0.05%)

Silver: $US21.088 (0.36%)

Nickel (3mth): $US24,012/t (+2.64%)

Copper (3mth): $US8,104.5/t (-0.14%)

Lithium Carbonate, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, NOV 2): $US75,125/t (+2.7% weekly, +122% year-to-date)

Lithium Hydroxide, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, NOV 2): $US74,575/t (+2.4% weekly, +164.2% year-to-date)

Oil (WTI): $US84.93 (-1.63%)

Oil (Brent): $US92.12 (-0.63%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US91.50 (+0.55%)

AUD/USD: 0.6398 (-0.48%)

Bitcoin: $US16,273.00 (+3.67%)

 

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

Not enough love for this accomplished, disturbing and dark tale. So we’re posting it again here.

 

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FRIDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

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Last week’s bolter OD6 Metals finished its stellar week to top out around the +50% mark Friday before easing to finish +26% for the day.

Venture Metals also finished strongly on the back of news that it hit multiple surface samples with more than 1% total rare earth oxides (TREO) and topping up at 12.5% TREO with 5,460 parts per million (0.546%) and 14,575ppm (1.457%) of the valuable magnet REEs praseodymium oxide and neodymium oxide respectively.

The result “effectively doubles the company’s exposure to the rare earth space”, VMS managing director Andrew Radonjic said.

Top of the charts on Friday, though, was late finisher Prospech (ASX:PRS), hoisted skyward by a short sharp +50% blast up its skirts on teeny tiny volume.

And The GO2 People (ASX:GO2) climbed out of a recent funk, up more than 27% on news that it’s sat down with the ATO to figure out a payment plan, after the company made a “show of good faith” lump sum payment of $250,000 against the Superannuation Guarantee liabilities of The GO2 Recruitment Trust earlier this month.

 

FRIDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

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