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%)

 

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FRIDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code Company Price % Volume Market Cap
PRS Prospech Limited 0.044 52% 397755 $1,890,249
WBE Whitebark Energy 0.0015 50% 2000000 $6,464,886
GCR Golden Cross 0.01 43% 378556 $7,680,793
COY Coppermoly Limited 0.011 38% 125001 $17,551,655
TD1 Tali Digital Limited 0.004 33% 250000 $3,697,892
WOA Wide Open Agricultur 0.315 31% 376146 $30,847,626
GO2 GO2 People 0.014 27% 712860 $4,473,021
RAG Ragnar Metals Ltd 0.019 27% 1464459 $5,687,773
INP Incentiapay Ltd 0.01 25% 99576 $10,120,509
PCL Pancontinental Energy 0.005 25% 3025759 $30,216,891
GSM Golden State Mining 0.053 23% 1485689 $5,031,611
VMS Venture Minerals 0.027 23% 24280997 $36,904,067
ZIP ZIP Co Ltd.. 0.75 20% 17795700 $441,049,783
CPT Cipherpoint Limited 0.006 20% 16349848 $4,145,816
FAU First Au Ltd 0.006 20% 4547910 $4,759,966
GLV Global Oil & Gas 0.003 20% 1830302 $4,683,387
LER Leaf Res Ltd 0.012 20% 4663171 $11,560,828
FAL Falconmetalsltd 0.25 19% 490174 $37,170,000
OD6 OD6 Metals 0.5 19% 19928090 $20,723,008
AAP Australian Agri Ltd 0.025 19% 45499 $6,407,089
HGO Hillgrove Res Ltd 0.04 18% 7981574 $39,925,828
BYH Bryah Resources Ltd 0.027 17% 202000 $6,468,830
DCX Discovex Res Ltd 0.0035 17% 937500 $9,907,704
IRI Integrated Research 0.385 17% 480531 $57,076,316
MHC Manhattan Corp Ltd 0.007 17% 1200000 $9,157,672
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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

Here are the least performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code Company Price % Volume Market Cap
DW8 DW8 Limited 0.002 -33% 12,559,108 $8,854,568
MGG Mogul Games Grp Ltd 0.001 -33% 883,500 $4,895,162
ARO Astro Resources NL 0.003 -25% 83,500 $19,573,068
CFO Cfoam Limited 0.003 -25% 968,072 $2,935,363
HRN Horizon Gold Ltd 0.25 -23% 30,719 $40,684,033
CTQ Careteq Limited 0.06 -22% 258,708 $9,204,872
JRV Jervois Global Ltd 0.4075 -17% 23,450,987 $747,766,710
LYK Lykosmetalslimited 0.1 -17% 183,765 $7,488,000
ARE Argonaut Resources 0.0025 -17% 9,508,503 $19,085,614
FHS Freehill Mining Ltd. 0.01 -17% 1,290,000 $22,027,787
MRQ Mrg Metals Limited 0.005 -17% 12,153,829 $10,482,352
NNL Nordicnickellimited 0.18 -14% 424,285 $12,265,401
S66 Star Combo 0.15 -14% 22,000 $23,639,522
IMB Intelligent Monitor 0.13 -13% 500 $19,605,044
ICN Icon Energy Limited 0.007 -13% 609,953 $6,144,109
ITM Itech Minerals Ltd 0.285 -12% 630,697 $29,520,834
RVS Revasum 0.11 -12% 10,763 $13,239,582
SKF Skyfii Ltd 0.062 -11% 660,049 $28,978,511
NGY Nuenergy Gas Ltd 0.016 -11% 17,563 $26,657,199
IVZ Invictus Energy Ltd 0.245 -11% 38,531,889 $240,995,630
IMR Imricor Med Sys 0.33 -11% 42,130 $55,998,621
GWR GWR Group Ltd 0.052 -10% 113,704 $18,630,566
MRI Myrewards International 0.052 -10% 340,000 $10,160,165
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