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

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the last day of the first week of the seventh month of the year.

On Stockhead today, pretty much everyone’s hoping for a Friday recovery, after the markets spent the past couple of days making a lot look pretty glum, and there’s a bumper crop of Interesting Things to get your investment juice oozing.

Josh Chiat’s got an update on just how shiny the future of gold is, according to the World Gold Council, whose job it is to make sure everyone thinks that the future of gold is very shiny.

Emma Davies has this excellent piece on a couple of Aussie companies with some sweet, sweet US Defence deals, and Stockhead’s resident expert on everything oily and gassy, Bevis Yeo, asks the question “Is Japan’s seeming disfavour towards Australian LNG really that bad?”

Helpfully, he’s answered it, too – which is either good news for us, or he’s talking to himself again. We’ll let you be the judge.

But first, to the day ahead.

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1910.43 (-0.36%)

Silver: $US22.71 (-1.69%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,160/t (-0.22%)

Copper (3mth): $US8,277/t (-0.50%)

Oil (WTI): $US71.86 (+0.10%)

Oil (Brent): $US76.48 (-0.22%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US112.27/t (+0.38%)

AUD/USD: 0.6626 (+0.0%)

Bitcoin: $US30,196 (-0.76%)

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
PEB	Pacific Edge	0.1825	110%	3,392,495	$70,501,774
XTC	Xantippe Res Ltd	0.002	100%	11,236,296	$11,480,100
RGS	Regeneus Ltd	0.017	89%	925,913	$2,757,932
ALM	Alma Metals Ltd	0.015	50%	6,521,970	$11,040,008
TTM	Titan Minerals	0.071	34%	3,780,994	$74,797,479
DDT	DataDot Technology	0.004	33%	1,064,210	$3,632,858
ELE	Elmore Ltd	0.008	33%	3,437,000	$8,396,303
GED	Golden Deeps	0.008	33%	55,063,573	$6,931,360
LNU	Linius Tech Limited	0.004	33%	62,502	$11,296,372
TMB	Tambourah Metals	0.145	32%	1,269,050	$4,531,186
CRR	Critical Resources	0.054	29%	119,821,289	$66,979,705
JPR	Jupiter Energy	0.023	28%	16,376	$22,137,302
SBM	St Barbara Limited	0.305	25%	30,110,515	$199,363,622
R8R	Regener8 Resources NL	0.2	25%	157,982	$4,105,000
AVW	Avira Resources Ltd	0.0025	25%	219,333	$4,267,580
CCO	The Calmer Co Int	0.0025	25%	2,850,000	$889,555
ROO	Roots Sustainable	0.005	25%	121,066	$554,889
WFL	Wellfully Limited	0.005	25%	100,000	$1,971,777
1MC	Morella Corporation	0.0085	21%	24,120,527	$42,690,063
EPM	Eclipse Metals	0.017	21%	2,344,331	$28,392,837
LCL	LCL Resources Ltd	0.04	21%	7,364,080	$26,212,047
AUZ	Australian Mines Ltd	0.042	20%	22,475,277	$22,300,450
GCM	Green Critical Min	0.018	20%	33,332,985	$14,797,179
OLI	Oliver'S Real Food	0.018	20%	139,982	$6,610,979
MVP	Medical Developments	1.14	20%	454,153	$81,989,916

Pacific Edge (ASX:PEB): +101% > This local cancer diagnostics company is on a comeback-trail tear today partly thanks to two other companies, Novitas and First Coast granting a stay of execution on US Medicare’s local Coverage Determination – a policy that would have had a terminal effect on an important PEB product – the genomic biomarker Cxbladder test for bladder cancer. What happens next? Not exactly sure, but it’s good news right now, at least.

Regeneus (ASX:RGS): +67% > This local health tech stock was up for absolutely no reason that we could figure out earlier in the day, or now. And, as it turns out, the company has no clue why, either, stating “The Company has no explanation as to why there has been a price and volume change in the trading of the Company’s securities” after a raised eyebrow from the ASX.

The Calmer Co International (ASX:CCO): +50%… also on no news of note. But at least we’re seeing some success stories today, no matter how dubiously informed some of those narratives might appear to be at a first or second glance.

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
MHI	Merchant House	0.032	-36%	127,258	4,713,325
BP8	BPH Global Ltd	0.002	-20%	21,118	3,211,824
MRD	Mount Ridley Mines	0.002	-20%	2,000,000	19,462,207
TRT	Todd River Res Ltd	0.009	-18%	3,708,204	7,167,023
ACR	Acrux Limited	0.048	-17%	173,068	16,714,176
GFN	Gefen Int	0.005	-17%	110,000	408,601
MTB	Mount Burgess Mining	0.005	-17%	37,949,677	5,299,027
RXL	Rox Resources	0.275	-17%	1,558,499	74,036,906
A8G	Australasian Metals	0.12	-14%	18,500	7,296,869
AJQ	Armour Energy Ltd	0.003	-14%	877,840	17,224,697
FG1	Flynngold	0.055	-14%	204,200	8,697,327
PRX	Prodigy Gold NL	0.007	-13%	571,165	14,008,863
WYX	Western Yilgarn NL	0.12	-11%	177,327	6,703,763
LER	Leaf Res Ltd	0.016	-11%	687,798	37,116,700
AT1	Atomo Diagnostics	0.053	-10%	3,451,395	33,682,568
IMI	Infinity Mining	0.135	-10%	1,216	11,471,748
PGY	Pilot Energy Ltd	0.018	-10%	9,928,364	19,518,553
RDN	Raiden Resources Ltd	0.009	-10%	3,620,223	20,552,689
ZEU	Zeus Resources Ltd	0.036	-10%	1,328,770	18,191,240
FNX	Finexia Financial Group	0.23	-10%	32,000	12,231,222
MAG	Magmatic Resrce Ltd	0.083	-10%	60,390	28,123,737
MHC	Manhattan Corp Ltd	0.01	-9%	12,704,480	32,299,066
PRM	Prominence Energy	0.02	-9%	157,665	2,667,079
TOE	Toro Energy Limited	0.01	-9%	89,024	47,947,764