On Stockhead today, Reuben’s High Voltage column undresses all the news driving ASX lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, manganese, magnesium, and vanadium stocks and exposes them to you, our dear unsuspecting and largely innocent readers.

Today it’s shock-horror episode #461 of Elon Musk’s Tesla moving our markets on their own –  announcing an obscenely huge Gigafactory expansion in Nevada.

Stockhead’s ‘Garimpeiro’ columnist Barry FitzGerald is back in the studio for another instalment of The Explorers Podcast.

And, my goodness. It’s an action packed morning ahead of an action packed week of central bank shenannigans, featuring Josh Chiat and the King of Coal no More, Eddy Sunarto and the low down on ChatGP, and Nadine and The Badman. Bevis. Me and Peter. Gregor is always lurking nearby. Em and Jess are causing distress.

But first, the day ahead…

 

TRADING HALTS

These companies are in them, or due to come out of them in a moment: 

Flight Centre Travel (ASX: FLT) – Capital raising comprising an institutional placement and a share purchase plan.

Security Matters (ASX:SMX) – Halt called pending an announcement in relation to the results of the Lionheart Shareholder meeting seeking to approve a merger.

Sprintex (ASX:SIX) – Capital raising.

Acumentis Group (ASX:ACU) – Capital raising.

AuTECO Minerals (ASX:AUT) – Capital raising.

Great Southern Mining (ASX:GSN) – Capital raising.

Hawsons Iron (ASX:HIO) – Capital raising.

Lode Resources (ASX:LDR) – Halt called pending the release of an announcement regarding the assay results from the drilling at its 100% owned Webbs Consol Silver project in NSW.

Carbon Revolution (ASX:CBR) – Halt called pending an announcement of CBR’s Appendix 4C and accompanying announcements in relation to a potential transaction with Twin Ridge Capital Acquisition.

Bounty Oil & Gas (ASX:BUY) – BUY intends to make an announcement in relation to PEP-11- Federal Court of Australia proceedings

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1928.30 (-0.90%)

Silver: $US23.91 (+0.02%)

Nickel (3mth): $US27,651/t (+4.40%)

Copper (3mth): $US9.342/t (+0.25%)

Oil (WTI): $US81.46 (+1.6%)

Oil (Brent): $US87.33 (+1.42%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US124.50 (+0.00%)

AUD/USD: 0.7093 (-0.12%)

Bitcoin: $US23,005 (-2.53%)

 

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING?

This did. How good is it?!!

 

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ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here were Tuesday’s best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Tuesday’s big winner is  IntelliHR (ASX:IHR) up 70.6% after news the company has entered into a scheme implementation deed and is steaming towards being acquired holus bolus by Humanforce Holdings.

The IHR board has unanimously backed the scheme, most likely because it is underpinned by a massively generous offer that implies an equity value of $38.6 million, an attractive premium for IHR shareholders of:

  • 75% premium to the last trading price of IHR shares on 30 January 2023
  • 77% premium to the 1-month volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of IHR shares
  • 80% premium to the 4-month VWAP of IHR shares

Noice.

MoneyMe (ASX:MME), delivered expectation-beating statutory profits and record revenue for the quarter.

“Building from strong results in the first quarter, the momentum continued into the second quarter and has seen us upgrading our outlook on revenue and profit for the full year,” MoneyMe managing director Clayton Howes said.

“Our return to statutory profitability after a prolonged period of high growth is not only a result of a shift in near-term business strategy in response to the macro environment, it is also a continuation of our commitment to drive profitable growth and a testament to the quality and proficiency of our team,” he added.

MoneyMe was up 64.2% when the bell rang.

 

ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the least performing ASX small cap stocks:

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