On Stockhead today, Peter’s still away.

He was in Tokyo. Now he’s… elsewhere:

 

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We’re okay, though. I guess.

A little short… But hey! There’s an ETF for that now too:

Nadine’s got Australia’s top performing ETFs from last year as… the ones which shorted US stocks! And most particularly tech. Makes sense, I suppose. But who thinks of these?

A joyously bumptious new year James Whelan says you’ll want cash right now for what’s coming. Literally, he says that.

We’ve got a shirtload of dry cleaning all about M&A. It’s clean, it smells great and it’s cash only. So you and your buddy Goldman Sachs go get your $66mn and we can talk.

Also Chinese tech has been green lit by a shady inner circle bureaucrat … actually he’s also the central bank governer these days so… anyway, his green light has in turn been greenlit by UBS and others. So we’re good for Chinese tech again. Sorry Jack.

And now, the day ahead…

 

TRADING HALTS

These are the stocks which were halted at the end of the last ASX session:

Tuesday. And then there were none.

 

WHAT GOT EVERYONE TALKING

An oldie but a goodie. People just dig gold. It’s like a comfort blanket that gets softer the more you hug it:

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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.

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1871.03 (+0.31%)

Silver: $US23.61 (+2.65%%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,900/t (-0.85%)

Copper (3mth): $US7,850/t (+2.98%)

Lithium Carbonate, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, DEC 28): $US82,075/t (+114.4% year-to-date)

Lithium Hydroxide, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, DEC 28): $US80,650/t (+164.4% year-to-date)

Oil (WTI): $US74.83 (+1.44%)

Oil (Brent): $US79.80 (+1.61%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US118.50 (+2.16%)

AUD/USD: 0.6909 (+0.51%)

Bitcoin: $US17,221 (+1.63%)

 

ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks from Tuesday

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Code Company Price % Volume Market Cap
WBE Whitebark Energy 0.0015 50% 1,519,354 $6,464,886
SMX Security Matters 0.18 38% 307,598 $21,828,499
EVE EVE Health Group Ltd 0.002 33% 1,258,085 $7,911,724
SRN Surefire Rescs NL 0.015 25% 13,624,230 $18,976,362
AQX Alice Queen Ltd 0.0025 25% 257,961 $4,400,500
CYM Cyprium Metals Ltd 0.14 22% 7,461,612 $83,972,805
M24 Mamba Exploration 0.18 20% 357,784 $6,326,250
OLY Olympio Metals Ltd 0.15 20% 75,915 $4,899,565
OAR OAR Resources Ltd 0.006 20% 369,998 $12,055,189
MVL Marvel Gold Limited 0.026 18% 143,010 $15,498,876
BUY Bounty Oil & Gas NL 0.007 17% 815,173 $8,223,006
LIO Lion Energy Limited 0.036 16% 282,524 $13,209,417
OPL Opyl Limited 0.029 16% 1,456,468 $1,601,301
TNY Tinybeans Group Ltd 0.225 15% 16,560 $11,970,164
LYK Lykos Metals 0.115 15% 28,266 $6,240,000
NGL Nightingale Intel 0.115 15% 115,101 $9,674,871
GRL Godolphin Resources 0.092 15% 142,600 $9,469,556
TRJ Trajan Group Holding 2.06 14% 61,780 $273,745,557
INP Incentiapay Ltd 0.008 14% 51,117 $8,855,445
KZA Kazia Therapeutics 0.12 14% 545,399 $17,157,942
SRR Sarama Resources 0.12 14% 70,500 $3,968,159
CNQ Clean Teq Water 0.45 14% 128,429 $22,795,568
MMI Metro Mining Ltd 0.017 13% 3,337,894 $65,457,445
C6C Copper Mountain 2.26 13% 215,361 $33,533,292
AL8 Alderan Resource Ltd 0.009 13% 538,372 $4,626,129
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Cyprium Metals (ASX:CYM) jumped 22% on solid volume, after recently announcing an offtake agreement for  100% (~140,000 tonnes) of the Copper Cathode produced during Phase 1 of its  Nifty Copper Project restart, alongside a US$35M Secured Offtake Prepayment Facility through Transamine SA.

 Copper Mountain Mining (ASX:C6C) is up about 15% now production has resumed at its 75% owned Copper Mountain Mine located in southern British Columbia near the town of Princeton, following a ransomware attack that brought production to a halt in the final days of 2022.

Turaco Gold (ASX:TCG) went off like a rocket following a chunky gold hit, the highlight being a 26m @ 4.82g/t gold from 35m at the Satama discovery in Côte d’Ivoire.

TCG says the zone of high-grade mineralisation remains open in all directions.

As Gregor noted yesterday: By the end of the day, TCG had added an entire $0.01c to its trading price – which is actually pretty epic, because that’s a better-than-17% rise.

 

ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the least performing ASX small cap stocks for Tuesday:

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Code Company Price % Volume Market Cap
KEY KEY Petroleum 0.001 -33% 301,000 $2,951,892
ROO Roots Sustainable 0.0015 -25% 173,010 $2,078,439
XST Xstate Resources 0.0015 -25% 183,575 $6,430,363
IS3 I Synergy Group Ltd 0.02 -20% 500,003 $7,227,009
ALM Alma Metals Ltd 0.008 -20% 709,068 $9,140,008
MTL Mantle Minerals Ltd 0.002 -20% 6,000 $13,364,013
SW1 Swift Networks Group 0.013 -19% 28,193 $9,484,747
M4M Macro Metals Limited 0.005 -17% 48,500 $11,682,467
AHI Advanced Health 0.105 -16% 24,323 $24,506,746
NSM Northstaw 0.16 -16% 106,033 $22,824,130
KNM Kneomedia Limited 0.012 -14% 2,218,133 $18,952,994
LNU Linius Tech Limited 0.003 -14% 64,866,635 $9,909,945
KED Keypath Education 0.535 -14% 226,704 $132,419,545
CXM Centrex Limited 0.1125 -13% 5,404,706 $79,510,604
PGY Pilot Energy Ltd 0.0175 -13% 9,329,877 $15,626,882
DRO Droneshield Limited 0.255 -12% 6,623,309 $130,802,176
VHM Vhmlimited 1.005 -12% 1,718,509 $160,641,250
1AE Aurora Energy Metals 0.15 -12% 132,944 $20,433,478
AXI Axiom Properties 0.075 -12% 30,000 $36,780,661
SPX Spenda Limited 0.015 -12% 3,759,981 $55,470,645
SIX Sprintex Ltd 0.039 -11% 99,874 $11,191,590
CTN Catalina Resources 0.008 -11% 4,772,845 $11,146,382
ESR Estrella Res Ltd 0.016 -11% 2,303,028 $26,704,294
RDS Redstone Resources 0.008 -11% 67,867 $6,631,492
SNS Sensen Networks Ltd 0.049 -11% 1,236,968 $37,326,450
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