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

On Stockhead today, the Top 10 crucial trials coming up in 2022, 3 ASX life science stocks for a healthy portfolio, and a Big 4 in a trading halt?

But first… the day ahead.

Plenty to look out for on Wednesday, with inflation and CPI numbers due for release.

Consensus forecast for year on year inflation is 6.3%, which is pretty freakin’ high, hence all the rate rises.

Listing activity has dried up what with the bearish markets and all, after we sustained around a listing a day in those bygone times of late 2021.

There is some movement though – Iluka Resources (ASX:ILU) shareholders backed its demerger of natural rutile play Sierra Rutile (ASX:SRX) on Friday by a vote of 99.95% to 0.05%, a ratio Robert Mugabe would have been delirious with.

There are no hijinks at play here though, with Iluka looking to move into rare earths and focus on Australia the demerger of its African business appears to have been well received, setting the stage for the development of the large Sembehun mine in Sierra Leone.

TRADING HALTS

Australian Unity Office Fund (ASX:AOF) – Unity’s nearly ready to talk about the proposal from Aliro Group to acquire all the issued units in AOF for $2.45 cash per pop.

Galena Mining (ASX:G1A) – Galena needs time to put a clarification together for its announcement yesterday on production guidance at the Abra Lead-Zinc mine in WA.

MARKETS

Gold: $US1,724.44 (+0.49%)

Silver: $US18.61 (-1.12%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,625/t (+0.12%)

Copper (3mth): $US7,391/t (+1.26%)

Lithium Carbonate, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, June 30): $US69,750/t (0.0% weekly)

Lithium Hydroxide, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, June 30): $US70,875/t (0.0% weekly)

Oil (WTI): $US95.09 (-1.31%)

Oil (Brent): $US98.75 (+0.38%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US104.55 (+5.86%)

AUD/USD: 0.6931 (0.00%)

Bitcoin: $US22,801.30 (+0.50%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING LAST WEEK?

Ford and Elon Musk had the lithium market shouting out loud with a string of battery metals MoUs and some loud-mouthed commentary from the Tesla supremo firing up the market.

Ford is putting its grubby paws on any battery metal that moves, signing a string of supply MoUs as legacy carmakers engineer a belated push in electric vehicle production: https://t.co/uUTBmmPgU4 $SYR $RIO $INR $LTR pic.twitter.com/dBiSwehTmT

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) July 22, 2022

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LAST WEEK’S ASX SMALL CAP WINNERS:

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks for July 18 – July 22:
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Code	Company	Price	%	Market Cap
VPR	Volt Power Group	0.003	100%	$14,016,800
WBE	Whitebark Energy	0.002	100%	$5,648,219
EVE	EVE Health Group Ltd	0.0015	50%	$5,050,483
MEB	Medibio Limited	0.0015	50%	$2,756,490
PRM	Prominence Energy	0.003	50%	$4,849,218
T3D	333D Limited	0.0015	50%	$3,034,297
SIT	Site Group Int Ltd	0.004	33%	$2,523,735
DOU	Douugh Limited	0.037	32%	$16,655,920
SZL	Sezzle Inc.	0.315	26%	$50,202,207
BTE	Botala Energy	0.175	21%	$7,563,200
ABE	Ausbondexchange	0.3	20%	$8,719,046
FRM	Farm Pride Foods	0.18	20%	$8,277,026
HMG	Hamelin Gold	0.12	20%	$11,000,000
GLV	Global Oil & Gas	0.003	20%	$4,683,387
4DX	4Dmedical Limited	0.62	19%	$108,656,997
EVZ	EVZ Limited	0.195	18%	$19,824,076
TYX	Tyranna Res Ltd	0.021	17%	$27,582,492
WMG	Western Mines	0.175	17%	$5,494,875
X2M	X2M Connect Limited	0.14	17%	$11,300,769
TTB	Total Brain Ltd	0.05	16%	$5,750,009
IOU	Ioupay Limited	0.094	16%	$44,874,977
GBE	Globe Metals &Mining	0.096	16%	$38,671,557
ZIP	ZIP Co Ltd..	0.895	15%	$533,150,447
M2R	Miramar	0.1	15%	$5,584,240

Victory Goldfields (ASX:1VG) made a super Rare Earth Elements (REE) discovery including critical Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HRE) from follow-up assays at its 100% owned Mafeking and North Stanmore project in WA.

The stock jumped into the ionosphere, after word spread on Wednesday morning of the latest results from follow up assays that initially reported ‘significant’ anomalous values of yttrium at the project in the Cue goldfields, about 650km due northeast of Perth.

1VG says the results indicate a High HREO/TREO ratio of 40% with reported magnet REOs (Pr), (Nd), (Tb), and (Dy) totalling 24.6%.

Delighted executive director Brendan Clark described the discoveries as a significant moment for Victory and its shareholders.

LAST WEEK’S ASX SMALL CAP LOSERS:

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks for July 18 – July 22:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Market Cap
ANL	Amani Gold Ltd	0.001	-33%	$35,540,162
AFW	Applyflow Limited	0.0015	-25%	$5,915,216
CLE	Cyclone Metals	0.003	-25%	$24,416,948
CFO	Cfoam Limited	0.004	-20%	$3,669,203
MGG	Mogul Games Grp Ltd	0.002	-20%	$8,154,150
XST	Xstate Resources	0.002	-20%	$8,037,954
DME	Dome Gold Mines Ltd	0.2	-18%	$85,775,513
SCT	Scout Security Ltd	0.04	-17%	$7,362,943
JRV	Jervois Global Ltd	0.4525	-15%	$813,066,764
LSR	Lodestar Minerals	0.006	-14%	$12,169,061
CVR	Cavalier Resources	0.155	-14%	$5,470,029
MDI	Middle Island Res	0.105	-13%	$14,690,187
MRL	Mayur Resources Ltd	0.075	-12%	$20,531,211
RNO	Rhinomed Ltd	0.16	-11%	$51,429,545
PNX	PNX Metals Limited	0.004	-11%	$19,998,260
HOR	Horseshoe Metals Ltd	0.025	-11%	$15,454,401
GCX	GCX Metals Limited	0.051	-11%	$10,589,386
T3K	Tek Ocean Group	0.18	-10%	$6,546,900
AD1	AD1 Holdings Limited	0.018	-10%	$13,516,287
ADR	Adherium Ltd	0.009	-10%	$22,082,511
DCX	Discovex Res Ltd	0.0045	-10%	$15,024,305
WML	Woomera Mining Ltd	0.0145	-9%	$10,989,329
AX1	Accent Group Ltd	1.375	-9%	$820,928,073
CV1	Cv Check Ltd	0.1	-9%	$47,765,561
PH2DD	Pure Hydrogen Corp	0.28	-9%	$105,204,088