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

Good morning everyone, and welcome to August 13, 2024 – an important date in the history of plundering and destroying ancient civilisations.

It was on this day in 1521 that Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlán (now known as Mexico City) after a 93-day siege. This effectively ended the Aztec empire and procured Mexico for the crown of Spain.

Cortés was said to have had an army of 530 or so crossbow-wielding, muzzle-loaded musket-toting, sex-deprived and smallpox-riddled Europeans frothing for some good old fashioned xenophobia-fuelled extreme violence.

At the risk of generalising, probably not the sort of blokes you’d want to share a bottle of tequila with or let your family or farm animals anywhere near.

And if these men weren’t already enough on edge, legend has it that Cortés burnt their ships down to help motivate them to succeed in the “new land”. Guess the stirring TED talk he delivered the evening before just didn’t cut it.

Luckily for you, you won’t have to slaughter thousands of innocents and decimate an entire culture in order to get your hands on good pre-market info today.

That’s because – as always – we’ve worked 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$2,449.50/oz (+0.76%)

Silver: US$27.87/oz (+1.56%)

Nickel (3mth): US$16,270/t (+0.74%)

Copper (3mth): US$8,978/t (+1.26%)

Zinc: US$2,697/t (+4.53%)

Oil (WTI): US$74.29/bbl (+1.49%)

Oil (Brent): US$77.63/bbl (+1.50%)

Iron 62pc Fe: US$101.26/t (+0.51%)

AUD/USD: 0.659 (+0.62%)

Bitcoin: US$58,411 (-3.4%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING

Psilocybin – a naturally occurring prodrug compound more commonly known as “magic mushrooms”, which, according to Wikipedia, is known to strongly influence the subjective experience of the passage of time. A bit how it feels writing Rise and Shine at 11.30pm at night.

A certain psilocybin drug trial underway by Tryptamine Therapeutics (ASX:TYP), has been showing huge promise for treating pain relief associated with a chronic musculoskeletal condition known as fibromyalgia…

#ASX #health #stocks:
⬆️ Tryptamine’s Phase 2a trial shows promise for #fibromyalgia
⬆️ Actinogen’s drug eases #depression
⬆️ Promising vision improvements in PYC’s severe eye disease trials
⬆️ Neurotech targets global deals $ACW $PYC $TYP $NTI https://t.co/wfRn3sRKwy

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) August 12, 2024

MONDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here were yesterday’s best performing small cap stocks:

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Code	Name	Price	% Change	Volume	Market Cap
ME1	Melodiol Glb Health	0.002	50%	6,954,415	$789,420
ODE	Odessa Minerals Ltd	0.003	50%	5,066	$2,086,565
RMX	Red Mount Min Ltd	0.002	50%	500,000	$3,423,577
SGQ	St George Min Ltd	0.034	36%	33,661,900	$24,713,511
HCL	Highcom Ltd	0.295	34%	3,331,166	$22,590,188
LPD	Lepidico Ltd	0.002	33%	6,103,767	$12,883,687
MEL	Metgasco Ltd	0.004	33%	594,155	$4,342,760
MKL	Mighty Kingdom Ltd	0.004	33%	546,263	$9,647,829
SI6	SI6 Metals Limited	0.002	33%	850,000	$3,553,289
SLZ	Sultan Resources Ltd	0.008	33%	87,454	$1,185,519
WML	Woomera Mining Ltd	0.004	33%	16,181,344	$3,654,417
ZMM	Zimi Ltd	0.018	29%	2,011	$1,773,306
KRR	King River Resources	0.013	25%	6,741,753	$15,282,208
AVE	Avecho Biotech Ltd	0.003	25%	80,883	$6,338,594
VML	Vital Metals Limited	0.003	25%	1,100,000	$11,790,134
ADD	Adavale Resource Ltd	0.003	20%	765,058	$2,663,163
BNL	Blue Star Helium Ltd	0.006	20%	3,028,952	$9,724,426
ENT	Enterprise Metals	0.003	20%	3,333,333	$2,733,293
NES	Nelson Resources.	0.003	20%	187,500	$1,533,986
SUM	Summitminerals	0.215	19%	1,572,442	$12,938,029
EMC	Everest Metals Corp	0.125	19%	581,339	$19,559,726
DY6	Dy6Metalsltd	0.066	18%	82,855	$2,823,007
PHX	Pharmx Technologies	0.035	17%	889,958	$17,955,204