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

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On Stockhead today, who won the bourse in mediocre May, riding the shroom boom, and the stock keeping your renewables stocks running.

But first, the day ahead.

TRADING HALTS

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

Sequoia Financial Group (ASX:SEQ) – A delay by New Quantum in meeting a settlement obligation of stage 1 of its acquisition of 80% of Morrison Securities. There’s more on that here.

Develop Global (ASX:DVP) – Pending announcement, request for clarification re ‘significant increase to Sulphur Springs fresh ore resource’.

Noble Helium (ASX:NHE) – Capital raising.

IDT Australia (ASX:IDT) – Capital raising.

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1972.23 (-0.19%)

Silver: $US23.650 (-0.72%)

Nickel (3mth): $US24,025/t (+2.02%)

Copper (3mth): $US9002.50/t (+0.27%)

Oil (WTI): $US72.01(-0.41%)

Oil (Brent): $US79.81 (+0.49%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US106.50/t (+3.9%)

AUD/USD: 0.6650 (-0.0%)

Bitcoin: $US26,854 (+0.01%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

Canadian #lithium player Green Technology Metals are working with LG to build a vertically integrated battery supply chain In this episode @ChrissyMorrissy chats to Luke Cox, CEO at @greentm_ $GT1https://t.co/L4ICCvMCOn

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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.

THURSDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks on Tuesday:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
TNY	Tinybeans Group Ltd	0.23	53%	93,621	$9,207,818
CCO	The Calmer Co Int	0.003	50%	1,438,052	$904,102
KEY	KEY Petroleum	0.0015	50%	80,000	$1,967,928
SLM	Solismineralsltd	0.415	46%	8,682,769	$13,268,166
RFX	Redflow Limited	0.26	41%	4,664,946	$33,258,257
IS3	I Synergy Group Ltd	0.014	40%	593,030	$2,890,804
RR1	Reach Resources Ltd	0.009	38%	192,937,813	$17,907,829
SRJ	SRJ Technologies	0.11	38%	483,542	$7,585,284
NRZ	Neurizer Ltd	0.069	35%	76,387,572	$60,729,971
TTM	Titan Minerals	0.049	29%	454,949	$53,628,381
WCG	Webcentral Ltd	0.1	25%	2,337,761	$26,330,098
ASR	Asra Minerals Ltd	0.01	25%	715,182	$11,736,949
YOJ	Yojee Limited	0.017	21%	5,345,961	$15,868,474
HNR	Hannans Ltd	0.012	20%	737,981	$27,246,048
LCT	Living Cell Tech.	0.012	20%	3,220,654	$15,601,449
THR	Thor Energy PLC	0.006	20%	10,878,414	$7,368,064
TKL	Traka Resources	0.006	20%	1,000,000	$4,356,646
NMT	Neometals Ltd	0.575	20%	2,940,945	$265,315,764
BTN	Butn Limited	0.22	19%	84,730	$18,066,102
TRE	Toubaniresourcesinc	0.19	19%	192,888	$9,209,523
KSC	K & S Corporation	2.49	18%	20,310	$288,751,354
EL8	Elevate Uranium Ltd	0.315	17%	997,946	$74,383,844
IPT	Impact Minerals	0.014	17%	12,015,844	$34,136,447
CYL	Catalyst Metals	0.78	16%	182,562	$117,038,831
LGL	Lynch Group Holdings	2.2	16%	52,470	$231,315,282

Read ’em and weep:

Redflow (ASX:RFX): +41% on news the global clean-energy notable is set to supply a 20MWh battery system in California – one of the largest flow battery systems to be deployed in the US.

NeuRizer (ASX:NRZ): +35% on news the carbon-neutral energy firm is set to become a hydrogen producer in China. NRZ has signed a binding contract with Meijin Energy Investments (MEI), part of China’s largest integrated hydrogen company the Meijin Group.

Solis Minerals (ASX:SLM): +46% on no fresh news today (although have a read of Reuben’s Resources Top 5 for some recent head-turning info on this beast).

TinyBeans (ASX:TNY): +50% on news of a new CEO appointment, one Zsofi Paterson.

THURSDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the least best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
MEB	Medibio Limited	0.001	-33%	12,000	$6,471,891
CUF	Cufe Ltd	0.009	-31%	13,867,699	$12,559,461
RDN	Raiden Resources Ltd	0.0035	-30%	5,232,116	$9,272,912
ZLD	Zelira Therapeutics	2.18	-29%	318,013	$34,608,823
GMN	Gold Mountain Ltd	0.003	-25%	13,339,901	$7,879,730
MTL	Mantle Minerals Ltd	0.0015	-25%	2,735,350	$12,294,892
FAL	Falconmetalsltd	0.225	-21%	1,698,636	$50,445,000
DC2	Dctwo	0.019	-21%	694,234	$3,137,186
PPY	Papyrus Australia	0.024	-20%	338,905	$14,252,456
AVE	Avecho Biotech Ltd	0.004	-20%	4,000	$10,810,796
EMU	EMU NL	0.002	-20%	2,055,000	$3,625,053
ERL	Empire Resources	0.004	-20%	50,000	$5,564,675
PYR	Payright Limited	0.004	-20%	547,383	$4,404,426
TYM	Tymlez Group	0.004	-20%	10,844,996	$5,460,976
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.002	-20%	305,585	$1,548,122
MBK	Metal Bank Ltd	0.023	-18%	267,890	$7,741,595
MDI	Middle Island Res	0.034	-17%	18,652	$5,019,147
MEL	Metgasco Ltd	0.015	-17%	3,288,017	$19,149,961
GCR	Golden Cross	0.005	-17%	108,011	$6,583,537
HLF	Halo Food Co. Ltd	0.01	-17%	1,513,315	$4,809,237
MTB	Mount Burgess Mining	0.0025	-17%	5,515,874	$2,649,513
PPG	Pro-Pac Packaging	0.22	-15%	29,153	$47,238,805
BYH	Bryah Resources Ltd	0.017	-15%	431,898	$5,625,069
HAS	Hastings Tech Met	1.4475	-15%	2,440,144	$219,770,308
ADY	Admiralty Resources.	0.006	-14%	812	$9,125,054