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

On Stockhead today, will Bod be the OTC winner in the CBD race, Rio Tinto’s monster lithium hunt begins and investing in proprietry tech.

But first, to the day ahead.

TRADING HALTS

These companies went  into trading halts and are due out in the coming days:

Lotus Resources (ASX:LOT) – Proposed Scheme of Arrangement

GreenX Metals (ASX:GRX) – Capital raise

Eroad (ASX:ERD) – Response to Brillian’s non-binding indicative offer

Optima Technology Group (ASX:OPA) – Update on company’s financial arrangements

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1957.39 (+1.32%)

Silver: $US24.11 (+4.40%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,575/t (+4.21%)

Copper (3mth): $US8,513.50/t (+2.29%)

Oil (WTI): $US75.81 (+1.31%)

Oil (Brent): $US80.15 (+0.95%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US110.61/t (+1.16%)

AUD/USD: 0.68  (+0.3%)

Bitcoin: $US30,352 (-0.73%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING?

Peter Strachan’s skinny on long-term energy storage got Australian Vanadium talking:

Several resource companies, including Australian Vanadium, through its subsidiary @VSUNEnergy, have expressed interest in supplying vanadium pentoxide to vanadium flow batteries.https://t.co/flPZpr29CM#vanadium #LDES #batterystorage #VFB $AVL #ATVVF @StockheadAU

— Australian Vanadium (@AusVanadium) July 12, 2023

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Also, be sure to check in preopen each day for ‘Market highlights and 5 ASX small caps to watch’, and 10.30am for our daily ‘10 at 10’ column — a live summary of winners & losers at the opening bell.

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Topping the winners list yesterday was NickelSearch (ASX:NIS) with news of “massive sulphide mineralisation” at the Sexton prospect within the wider Carlingup project.

The latest results confirm nickel mineralisation continues 60m along strike, extending the total strike length to 250m.

Everest Metals Corporation’s (ASX:EMC) targeted VTEM diamond drilling program identified Degrussa style mineralised system at the Revere Gold Project.

Three holes (1038m) of diamond drilling were completed over a 8.5km target area. EMC said Portable XRF results (ruh-roh) indicate up to 5.7% copper and up to 4.2% zinc at varying intersections.

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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