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

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On Stockhead today,

Vanadium is classed as a critical mineral – with priority for development and investment – by the Australian Government due to its use in VRFBs.

Just last week, the Federal Government launched its new Critical Minerals Strategy eyeing over 250,000 jobs if we can head downstream.

Emma has the ASX Vanadium playlist

But first, the day ahead.

TRADING HALTS

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

Jervois Global (ASX:JRV) – Capital raising.

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1907.20 (-0.31%)

Silver: $US22.16 (-0.90%)

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

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

Oil (WTI): $US69.27 (+2.1%)

Oil (Brent): $US74.13 (-0.94%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US115.50/t (+2.67%)

AUD/USD: 0.6596 (-1.26%)

Bitcoin: $US30,143 (-1.71%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING?

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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.

WEDNESDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
AN1	Anagenics Limited	0.014	27%	313,745	$4,021,820
BME	Blackmountainenergy	0.02	33%	10,033	$2,748,363
CLE	Cyclone Metals	0.0015	50%	1,921,957	$10,264,505
CVR	Cavalierresources	0.15	25%	329,272	$3,819,470
DCX	Discovex Res Ltd	0.0025	25%	31,043	$6,605,136
DXN	DXN Limited	0.0015	50%	680,241	$1,721,315
EMC	Everest Metals Corp	0.205	24%	1,995,526	$21,356,463
ENR	Encounter Resources	0.325	23%	14,309,641	$104,814,332
ENT	Enterprise Metals	0.004	33%	475,154	$2,188,413
FLN	Freelancer Ltd	0.23	21%	242,384	$85,673,828
GGX	Gas2Grid Limited	0.002	33%	5,904,921	$6,115,653
GLH	Global Health Ltd	0.135	23%	42,187	$6,380,372
GMN	Gold Mountain Ltd	0.007	40%	18,242,411	$9,849,663
IBX	Imagion Biosys Ltd	0.015	25%	14,549,408	$14,011,989
KGL	KGL Resources Ltd	0.145	21%	296,182	$68,075,024
MHC	Manhattan Corp Ltd	0.0075	25%	4,755,357	$17,617,672
OAU	Ora Gold Limited	0.0045	80%	158,675,990	$9,842,313
OZM	Ozaurum Resources	0.039	26%	741,878	$3,937,000
PUA	Peak Minerals Ltd	0.0025	25%	2,667,050	$2,082,753
RDN	Raiden Resources Ltd	0.009	29%	56,409,512	$14,386,883
SKY	SKY Metals Ltd	0.041	24%	1,561,281	$15,000,374
SRZ	Stellar Resources	0.013	30%	7,206,713	$10,059,642
TTT	Titomic Limited	0.031	35%	1,825,051	$5,503,580
WEL	Winchester Energy	0.003	50%	210,051	$2,040,844
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.0025	25%	102,400	$1,238,498

Stellar Resources (ASX:SRZ) jumped 30% after the Tassie-based explorer reported hitting a significant 38.6m-long Zn-Pb-Cu mineralised zone at ‘North Scamander’ in Tasmania, from 130m depth.

The exploration hole had reached a depth of 360m on 23 June with a planned EOH depth of 750m, according to Reubs.

In second place is Imagion Biosystems (ASX:IBX), which got as high as +33% on news that it has expanded its collaboration agreement with Siemens Healthineers but has since dropped back to around +16% as the session closed

In addition to extending the existing agreement, the companies have agreed to collaborate in the United States through the far less aggravatingly-named Siemens Medical Solutions USA, in anticipation of Imagion’s undertaking a multi-site Phase-2 study for its MagSense HER2 breast cancer imaging agent.

Cavalier Resources (ASX:CVR), was up 25% after an extensive soil geochemical program at the Ella’s Rock Li-Au-Ni project hit paydirt.

The company says it’s found three Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum (‘LCT’) bearing geochemical target areas, covering a combined 350ha.

WEDNESDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the least best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	% Today	Volume	Market Cap
AIV	Activex Limited	0.017	-15%	140,193	$4,310,052
AUA	Audeara	0.035	-17%	284,104	$6,018,600
CCO	The Calmer Co Int	0.003	-25%	460,365	$1,779,110
CPT	Cipherpoint Limited	0.005	-17%	541,685	$6,955,450
CYQ	Cycliq Group Ltd	0.006	-25%	3,000,000	$2,780,133
DDT	DataDot Technology	0.002	-20%	166,666	$3,027,382
FRS	Forrestaniaresources	0.105	-30%	9,989,770	$12,752,031
GNM	Great Northern	0.024	-20%	1,560,416	$4,638,121
GPR	Geopacific Resources	0.018	-14%	65,000	$17,245,013
HLX	Helix Resources	0.005	-17%	5,110,079	$13,938,875
ICE	Icetana Limited	0.038	-16%	10,000	$8,969,779
IXC	Invex Ther	0.215	-53%	4,576,133	$34,195,001
KEY	KEY Petroleum	0.001	-33%	250,000	$2,951,892
LDX	Lumos Diagnostics	0.011	-15%	799,138	$4,022,461
LML	Lincoln Minerals	0.015	-17%	7,045,722	$10,349,706
LYK	Lykosmetalslimited	0.065	-35%	110,258	$6,240,000
MBX	Myfoodieboxlimited	0.005	-17%	1,602,650	$222,768
MGA	Metalsgrovemining	0.105	-16%	115,000	$4,650,063
OPNR	Oppenneg	0.002	-80%	1,147,648	$7,976,284
PVS	Pivotal Systems	0.006	-25%	2,655,938	$4,276,950
QXR	Qx Resources Limited	0.0195	-22%	6,937,358	$22,421,558
SI6	SI6 Metals Limited	0.005	-17%	201,127	$8,972,368
SIO	Simonds Grp Ltd	0.12	-20%	13,164	$53,985,968
TD1	Tali Digital Limited	0.001	-33%	16,000	$4,942,733
TEM	Tempest Minerals	0.0155	-18%	2,617,170	$9,629,611