Good morning everyone, and welcome to Monday, September 30, 1841 – an important date in the history of office stationery.

That’s because on this day in 1841 that a bloke called Samuel Slocum was granted a patent for what we now know as “the stapler” – a feat I am assuming he managed by submitting all of the requisite patent application paperwork in triplicate, without using a single short piece of string to bind them all together.

Luckily for you, you won’t actually have to completely destory the global market for short pieces of string in order to get your hands on good pre-market info today.

That’s because – as always – we’ve worked super-hard to gather together lots of fiddly little things below, so you don’t need to go ferreting all over the internet for your ASX info this morning.

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: US$2,6758/.40 (-0.53%)

Silver: US$31.82 (-1.11%)

Nickel (3mth): US$17,041/t (+1.77%)

Copper (3mth): US$9,846/t (-0.99%)

Zinc: US$3,080/t (-0.61%)

Oil (WTI): US$68.10 (+0.75%)

Oil (Brent): US$71.09 (+102.85/t (+4.40%)

AUD/USD: 0.6904 (+0.45%)

Bitcoin: US$65,617.30 (-0.36%)

 

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Which ASX energy juniors stand to win from WA’s new domestic gas rules? Read the latest iteration of Got Gas to find out…

 

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Yesterday’s Small Cap Winners included:

Douugh (ASX:DOU) was charging hard on news that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire US B2B fintech services platform R-DBX, in a deal that the company says will provide it with a stable positive income stream which in 2023 generated $1.1 million. Douugh has also secured $1 million in working capital via a loan from US-based Relentless Fintech Partners.

4D Medical (ASX:4DX) was up on news that it has signed a comprehensive distribution agreement with Philips, to help the company establish a transformative commercialisation pathway in the United States. Under the terms of the deal, Philips will have exclusive distribution rights to the 4DMedical suite of products with US government customers and non-exclusive rights with all other US customers.

Black Canyon (ASX:BCA) has been boosted by news that drilling has intersected high grade manganese at the W2 prospect at Wandanya, 80km south of the Woodie Woodie Mine in WA. The company says that Portable XRF (pXRF) analysis indicates grade ranges of between 15% to 55% Mn, but – arguably more importantly – the geology of the find “expands the scope to explore for additional high-grade mineralisation along strike where the company has mapped 1.75km of intermittent high grade outcropping manganese”.

Nyrada (ASX:NYR), a drug development company specialising in novel small molecule therapeutics, was climbing on news of the successful completion of a dog toxicology study for its lead candidate, NYR-BI03. The study provided continuing data to support safety and tolerability of the drug, and Nyrada says it is on track to commence first in-human Phase I clinical trial for NYR-BI03 in late CY2024.

Cobalt Blue (ASX:COB) was up on yesterday’s annual report. After booking a $30m impairment to the value of its assets earlier this year and facing oversupply in the cobalt market, COB had a pretty severe drop in share price of 67% in the last year.

An annual report released yesterday has started to lift spirits – and the stock price again – after stating concentrated commitments to its corporate governance and making significant strides in its operations.

This includes the initiation of the Kwinana Cobalt Refinery Study and the commencement of engineering work by Tetra-Tech, while also partnering with Iwatani Corp for potential collaboration on the refinery and its Broken Hill project.

Nothing brewing lately with Loyal Lithium (ASX:LLI) and the last announcement to the market was about partnering with McGill University to access a C$1m research grant to advance its lithium projects in Canada.

It’s got a field program underway at its flagship Trieste project in Quebec’s prolific James Bay lithium district where 10 geo’s are are conducting field prospecting and are due to wrap up the program today. They’ve been concentrating on five resistivity trends across an extensive 22km stretch that align with all six known spodumene-bearing pegmatite dyke outcrops within the project area that showed up to 2.2% Li2O near surface.

Polymetals Resources (ASX:POL) continues to skyrocket after receiving an upgraded ~$30m funding in a loan facility and offtake agreement with long term partner UK-based commodities trader Ocean Partners for its Endeavour base metals mine in mid-September.

The mine developer remains on track to restart Endeavour which comes in with a pre-tax NPV8% of $414m, IRR of a whopping 345% and free cash flow of $609m over the 10-year mine plan with an average annual EBITDA of $89m over the first five years.

 

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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TRADING HALTS 

A2 Milk (ASX:A2M) – to respond to ASX’s price query received this morning and to inform the market regarding a potential acquisition by A2M.

Estrella Resources (ASX:ESR) – No reason given by the ASX for the halt being called.

TMK Energy (ASX:TMK) – to allow TMK to manage its continuous disclosure obligations whilst it undertakes a capital raising.

 

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