Good morning everyone, and welcome to Wednesday, 8 November.

Aussie shares are poised to open flat on Wednesday after a mixed session on Wall Street. 

On Stockhead today…

After dumping a controversial mega iron ore project, can the former Flinders Mines reinvent itself as the king of the iron ore juniors? MD Steven Michael says the new development plan for rebadged Red Hawk Mining would see a small scale project of around 3Mtpa built for just $150 million.

A slowing global economy, along with recession concerns and geopolitical headwinds, have slowed capital raising in 2023. But ASX-listed Complii saw more than $10 billion raised through its platform in FY23. Eddy Sunarto reached out to Craig Mason, Executive Chairman of Complii.

And Guy le Page has called the “second boom” of uranium as just around the corner. Who’s he picking? This ASX junior.

 

But first..

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: US$1,983.80 (-0.43%)

Silver: US$23.14 (-0.27%)

Nickel (3mth): US$17,979/t (-0.19%)

Copper (3mth): US$8,143/t (+0.41%)

Oil (WTI): US$80.97 (+0.57%)

Oil (Brent): US$85.35 (+0.55%)

Iron 62pc Fe: US$126.15/t (+0.46%)

AUD/USD: 0.6509 (+0.03%)

Bitcoin: US$34,889 (-0.8%)

 

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING

Barrick Gold’s Mark Bristow pours cold water on M&A, placing focus for C$40 billion gold giant on organic growth. Josh Chiat explored how the development of its Pakistan copper asset will help make the gold producer a major copper force, with 450,000t of output annually by 2031.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in China to restore stability with Australia’s largest trading partner. So as Australia looks to improve trade with China, Nadine McGrath looks at which ASX stocks could stand to benefit.

And this…

 

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
NRZR Neurizer Ltd - Rights 10-Nov-23 Def 0.002 100% 1,493,610 $127,674
TWER Treasury Wine Estate - Rts16Nov23 Forusdef 0.86 74% 81,288 $37,811,095
WSP Whispir Limited 0.4825 61% 4,197,436 $39,291,768
CLE Cyclone Metals 0.0015 50% 21,708,476 $10,264,505
MKL Mighty Kingdom Ltd 0.016 45% 1,671,739 $4,624,066
TG6 Tgmetalslimited 0.675 36% 12,212,843 $19,949,263
M4M Macro Metals Limited 0.004 33% 3,513,194 $5,961,233
PUA Peak Minerals Ltd 0.004 33% 1,944,592 $3,124,130
8IH 8I Holdings Ltd 0.012 33% 30,522 $3,216,204
NSM Northstaw 0.065 33% 688,765 $5,886,223
OZM Ozaurum Resources 0.13 31% 3,613,629 $15,716,250
CHK Cohiba Min Ltd 0.0025 25% 383,999 $4,426,488
GTG Genetic Technologies 0.0025 25% 66,658 $23,083,316
LBT LBT Innovations 0.005 25% 293,253 $1,423,601
MRQ Mrg Metals Limited 0.0025 25% 4,220,000 $4,411,837
COV Cleo Diagnostics 0.205 24% 1,068,775 $12,183,188
EXL Elixinol Wellness 0.011 22% 2,604,642 $5,682,095
TRT Todd River Res Ltd 0.011 22% 5,229,430 $5,863,928
S3N Sensore Ltd 0.11 22% 18,929 $3,275,392
KZA Kazia Therapeutics 0.067 22% 1,622,414 $12,999,216
CLU Cluey Ltd 0.088 21% 60,536 $14,717,790
XGL Xamble Group Limited 0.06 20% 56,000 $14,207,812
CTO Citigold Corp Ltd 0.006 20% 2,542,078 $14,368,295
CXU Cauldron Energy Ltd 0.012 20% 14,190,554 $9,735,687
ESR Estrella Res Ltd 0.006 20% 30,737,107 $8,795,359
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Yesterday’s Small Caps highlights:

Aussie clinical stage immuno-oncology upstart, Imugene (ASX:IMU) dropped a promising clinical trial update of its Phase 1 MAST (Metastatic Advanced Solid Tumours) trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of novel cancer-killing virus CF33-hNIS (VAXINIA).

Imugene CEO Leslie Chong says IMU’s Phase 1 trials are generally designed to look for safety, tolerability and early response signals to determine the optimal dose for further development.

“The early positive response data we are seeing at the mid-dose level in hard-to-treat bile duct cancer suggests that VAXINIA may be a potent anti-cancer drug as we interrogate higher dose levels.

“With no adverse safety signals, thus allowing us to dose higher, VAXINIA will have a very high therapeutic window which is valuable in oncology drug development.”

 

Also higher on Tuesday was NickelSearch (ASX:NIS). The WA nickel sulphide explorer is having a +40% kind of week so far, and was up another 17% or so around Melbourne Cup time.

 

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

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Code Company Price % Volume Market Cap
REM Remsensetechnologies 0.038 -34% 270,500 $5,701,985
KNM Kneomedia Limited 0.002 -33% 1 $4,514,356
RBR RBR Group Ltd 0.002 -33% 2 $4,855,214
TGH Terragen 0.02 -29% 1,326,160 $10,334,272
AHN Athena Resources 0.003 -25% 1 $4,281,870
CCE Carnegie Cln Energy 0.0015 -25% 522,371 $31,285,147
DCX Discovex Res Ltd 0.0015 -25% 1 $6,605,136
LNU Linius Tech Limited 0.0015 -25% 1,020,000 $9,044,581
MGTR Magnetite Mines - Rights 09-Nov-23 0.003 -25% 29,428 $83,744
NNG Nexion Group 0.012 -25% 596,999 $3,236,926
SIH Sihayo Gold Limited 0.0015 -25% 1 $24,408,512
TMR Tempus Resources Ltd 0.009 -25% 9,640,861 $4,115,074
BVR Bellavistaresources 0.095 -24% 12,590 $6,017,305
HPR High Peak Royalties 0.05 -23% 175,000 $13,523,881
AD1 AD1 Holdings Limited 0.004 -20% 100,000 $4,112,845
DOU Douugh Limited 0.004 -20% 507,977 $5,338,545
ERL Empire Resources 0.004 -20% 1 $5,564,675
FAU First Au Ltd 0.002 -20% 1 $3,629,983
LSR Lodestar Minerals 0.004 -20% 2,435,689 $10,116,987
ROO Roots Sustainable 0.004 -20% 24,529 $766,562
SFG Seafarms Group Ltd 0.004 -20% 126,396 $24,182,996
HMD Heramed Limited 0.033 -18% 690,376 $11,180,568
EEL Enrg Elements Ltd 0.005 -17% 24,000 $6,059,790
SI6 SI6 Metals Limited 0.005 -17% 1,004,224 $11,963,157
OSX Osteopore Limited 0.042 -16% 56,901 $7,745,932
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TRADING HALTS

Reward Minerals (ASX:RWD) – Pending the release of an announcement in relation to a potential material acquisition

Impact Minerals (ASX:IPT) – Pending the release of the Lake Hope Scoping Study

Challenger Gold (ASX:CEL) – Pending the release to the market of a material announcement in relation to a Scoping Study for the Hualilan Gold Project in Argentina

Inca Minerals (ASX:ICG) – Pending an announcement regarding a capital raising