Righto… Before I get too far into the meat of this morning’s pre-market information power-dump, let’s all just take a moment to think about what happened yesterday, and reflect on what each of us could have done differently to avoid the 1.3% pasting the market endured.

Here’s hoping that today works out a bit better than that, which is an entirely achievable outcome, provided we all collectively grow a pair, and stop panic-selling our entire portfolios to buy pallets of bottled water, tinned beans and – of course – about 9 Amazons’ worth of triple-ply toilet paper.

That will rely on making sure that you’re all informed, and armed with the nuggets of knowledge that help to sort the wheat from the chaff, the winners from the losers and – dare I say it – the arseholes from the elbows when the time comes to buy shares that you’ll still love and cherish for months, if not years, to come.

To that end, Nadine McGrath has delivered Part II of her deep dive into the most current iteration of Gold Fever in Victoria – an often chronic condition whose symptoms include loss of a sense of trust, frequent self-induced poverty and occasional pirate-like outbursts.

And Earlybird Eddy’s back on the keys this morning, too, wading into the cutting edge topic of July’s big winners in InfoTech.

The man they call Joah, Josh Chiat, ran his flawless ruler over all the commodity performances in July, while Jess Cummins broke bread with legendary geophysicist Amanda Buckingham.

And this site is free. Incredible, we know.

And, as always, to get your day started off on the right foot, below you will find the data and digits and other fine things you should probably get your head around before things kick off at 10:00am.

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1934.91 (-0.5%)

Silver: $US23.70 (-2.59%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,550/t (-3.61%)

Copper (3mth): $US8506/t (-1.45%)

Oil (WTI): $US79.65 (-2.11%)

Oil (Brent): $US83.40 (-1.77%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US107.41/t (-0.84%)

AUD/USD: 0.6540  (+0.3%)

Bitcoin: $US29,166 (-0.1%)

 

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
DXN DXN Limited 0.0015 50% 4,057,419 $1,721,315
MEB Medibio Limited 0.0015 50% 932,329 $5,150,594
BDX Bcaldiagnostics 0.115 44% 6,543,048 $10,887,577
AHN Athena Resources 0.008 33% 4,614,715 $6,422,805
YPB YPB Group Ltd 0.004 33% 660,090 $2,230,384
AW1 Americanwestmetals 0.25 25% 46,326,070 $69,069,676
AJQ Armour Energy Ltd 0.0025 25% 8,056 $9,842,684
THR Thor Energy PLC 0.005 25% 200,000 $5,837,166
NYR Nyrada Inc. 0.041 24% 134,641 $5,148,287
DCN Dacian Gold Ltd 0.115 22% 611,839 $114,379,288
VKA Viking Mines Ltd 0.011 22% 6,780 $9,227,326
NME Nex Metals Explorat 0.017 21% 32,000 $4,935,455
DC2 Dctwo 0.023 21% 150,000 $2,483,606
ODY Odyssey Gold Ltd 0.03 20% 455,439 $19,138,445
BNO Bionomics Limited 0.012 20% 6,309,909 $14,687,354
CYQ Cycliq Group Ltd 0.006 20% 5,987 $1,737,583
HLX Helix Resources 0.006 20% 18,922,067 $11,615,729
PRX Prodigy Gold NL 0.006 20% 536,751 $8,755,539
TIG Tigers Realm Coal 0.006 20% 1,577,857 $65,333,512
TMX Terrain Minerals 0.006 20% 610,000 $5,415,997
E33 East 33 Limited. 0.033 18% 63,090 $14,534,484
SYM Symbio Holdings Ltd 2.74 17% 847,584 $199,505,791
GBZ GBM Rsources Ltd 0.021 17% 334,642 $11,087,301
SQX SQX Resources Ltd 0.14 17% 613,053 $3,000,000
INP Incentiapay Ltd 0.007 17% 1 $7,590,382
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Yesterday’s Small Caps standouts were:

Health-tech stock BCAL Diagnostics (ASX:BDX) started and finished well. We talked about it all day, in fact, but here’s the choicest summary, from our very own non-fungible Eddy Sunarto:

“BCAL Diagnostics has announced breakthrough results and major steps towards commercialisation of its breast cancer diagnostic test.

“A clinical study the company sponsored with Precion Inc. in North Carolina has achieved an impressive sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 85.5%.

“What this means is that the BCAL breast cancer test should readily be capable of being replicated not only in BCAL’s dedicated laboratory in Australia but, more importantly, will enable blood samples to be analysed (using the BCAL test) in commercial laboratories throughout the world.”

American West Metals (ASX:AW1) is another owe couldn’t stay away from. The $92m-capped copper hunter revealed a “major discovery” at the Storm project in Canada.

Diamond drilling of a large gravity target intersected thick intervals of copper sulphides, reports the company.

The two diamond drill holes were punched in 680m apart — the continuity of the mineralised horizon and the size of the gravity anomaly,>5km long and up to 1km wide, suggests that drilling has potentially identified a very large copper deposit, it says.

Assays are pending, and you can read more about it here, in this special report.

 

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
EEL Enrg Elements Ltd 0.003 -40% 15,993,270 $5,046,171
VTM Victory Metals Ltd 0.245 -38% 2,189,343 $31,522,301
XTC Xantippe Res Ltd 0.001 -33% 3,256,420 $17,220,150
AIS Aeris Resources Ltd 0.27 -29% 4,819,630 $262,559,326
AXP AXP Energy Ltd 0.0015 -25% 71,724 $11,649,361
MTL Mantle Minerals Ltd 0.0015 -25% 2,356,792 $12,294,892
TMB Tambourahmetals 0.2625 -23% 1,382,510 $14,371,530
ACW Actinogen Medical 0.029 -22% 6,702,414 $67,201,330
NNG Nexion Group 0.011 -21% 1,422,185 $2,832,310
KCC Kincora Copper 0.053 -21% 1,523,825 $8,060,252
DDT DataDot Technology 0.004 -20% 190,005 $6,054,764
ICN Icon Energy Limited 0.004 -20% 2,000,189 $3,840,068
PKO Peako Limited 0.008 -20% 455,232 $4,707,315
SHP South Harz Potash 0.031 -18% 1,949,002 $22,800,472
GLE GLG Corp Ltd 0.165 -18% 14,089 $14,820,000
GFN Gefen Int 0.005 -17% 82,980 $769,679
MXC Mgc Pharmaceuticals 0.0025 -17% 6,821,820 $11,677,079
SRI Sipa Resources Ltd 0.021 -16% 3,274 $5,703,953
ICG Inca Minerals Ltd 0.029 -15% 432,378 $16,490,339
NOX Noxopharm Limited 0.036 -14% 379,682 $12,273,994
AUR Auris Minerals Ltd 0.012 -14% 53,348 $6,672,763
AVM Advance Metals Ltd 0.006 -14% 267,433 $4,119,911
CPT Cipherpoint Limited 0.006 -14% 14,800 $8,114,692
LML Lincoln Minerals 0.006 -14% 6,304,332 $9,944,983
M2M Mtmalcolmminesnl 0.024 -14% 60,001 $2,233,490
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TRADING HALTS

Mesoblast (ASX:MSB): Pending an announcement regarding a US Food and Drug Administration’s review of the company’s Biologics License Application resubmission for remestemcel-L in the treatment of children with steroid-refractory acute graft versus host disease.

ChemX Materials (ASX:CMX) A pause in trading that allows ChemX to “manage its continuous disclosure obligations pending the release of an announcement regarding a strategic funding package and management change”.

 

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