Rise and Shine: Everything you need to know before the ASX opens

On Stockhead today, how to bet on NFTs going bust, ASX molybdenum stocks and hey wtf is molybdenum anyway, and all the upcoming Phase 3 trials.

But first, the day ahead.

 

TRADING HALTS

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

Hammer Metals (ASX:HMX) – clarifying an article in the Australian newspaper

Mad Paws Holdings (ASX:MPA) – capital raise

Silver Mines (ASX:SVL) – capital raise

West Wits Mining (ASX:WWI) – capital raise

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1,881.95 (+0.42%)

Silver: $US22.43 (+1.16%)

Nickel (3mth): $US27,248/t (-0.04%)

Copper (3mth): $US8,925.00/t (+0.60%)

Oil (WTI): $US77.391 (+0.33%)

Oil (Brent): $US83.81 (+0.20%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US124.50 (-0.80%)

AUD/USD: 0.6982 (+0.35%)

Bitcoin: $US23,192 (-0.06%)

 

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ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are yesterday’s best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Spacetalk (ASX:SPA) was up another 49.1% on no fresh news – taking it to a 5-day gain of +240% on high volumes  — before trading was paused.

SPA makes wearables and apps that allow parents to track a child’s location and block their access to nasty things on the internet.

Health stock Fiji Kava (ASX:FIJ) appointed CJ Patel to be the exclusive distributor of FIJ’s Taki Mai range of products across 17 countries.

The agreement targets minimum sales of $11 million to retain exclusivity over an initial three-year term.

Tennant Minerals (ASX:TMS) drilled a true width 30.5m intersection grading 6.2% copper and 6.8g/t gold – including 17.8m @ 11.5 g/t gold and 16.1m @ 10.5% copper – at Bluebird, part of the Barkly tenements in the NT.

“The results are another key step in our strategy to identify multiple, multi-million tonne, high-grade copper-gold deposits within the Barkly Tenements, where we aim to establish a stand-alone copper-gold project,” TMS chairman Matthew Driscoll says.

 

ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are yesterday’s worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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