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

On Stockhead today, the ASX stocks vying for a big bloody slice of $55bn pie, is our stock exchange better than New Zealand’s, and crypto funding is flying.

TRADING HALTS

The following companies went into trading halts yesterday and are expected out in the next few days:

Emu (ASX:EMU) – Large flightless bird seeks companions to provide equity. Non-smokers preferred. Email contact only. No time wasters.

Echo IQ (ASX:EIQ) – Smart smart team team seeks seeks capital capital funding funding via via corporate corporate transaction transaction.

Larvotto Resources (ASX:LRV) – Larvotto is undertaking a capital raise. More details will be provided in due course.

HSC Technology (ASX:HSC)– HSC has news of material contract in the pipeline, which hopefully won’t disrupt exam preparations for thousands of high school students.

De Grey Mining (ASX:DEG) – De Grey wants you to stop buying de stocks for a bit, while it gets de team together to organise de capital raise so it can keep digging de gold outta de ground.

COMMODITY/FOREX/ CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1,725.45 (+1.26%)

Silver: $US20.99 (+0.59%)

Nickel (3mth): $US22,020/t (+3.58%)

Copper (3mth): $US7,687/t (+2.38%)

Lithium Carbonate, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, Sept 14): $US71,500/t (+98.6% year-to-date)

Lithium Hydroxide, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, Sept 14): $US70,550/t (+135.6% year-to-date)

Oil (WTI): $US86.57 (+0.07%)

Oil (Brent): $US91.79 (-0.04%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US95.21 (+1.05%)

AUD/USD: 0.6514 (+0.22%)

Bitcoin: $US20,270 (-0.35%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

Lithium continues to get the folks on Twitter talking.

• $RIO plans initial lithium drilling program at North Rover in early 2023
• De Grey will raise $150m, fully funding it through to completion of DFS, FID
• $DEG has raised ~$400m since first announcing the discovery at Hemi late 2019 #ASX
https://t.co/V149eCdbOf

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) October 5, 2022

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ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

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AD1 Holdings (ASX:AD1)  added 41%.  Gregor says,  there’s no real news to explain the jump, other than director Michael Norton’s recent dip into the piggy bank to drop *checks notes* $1995.75 on more company shares.

Harvest Technology Group (ASX:HTG) is running riot, after announcing that global humanitarian emergency relief team International Rescue (no, really… that’s what they’re called) has signed on to use HTG’s tech to help in their quest to save lives around the world.

Dalaroo Metals (ASX:DAL) is ahead some 20% after kicking as high as 28% on Wednesday morning trade. News of rare earth potential at the Lyons River Project in WA’s Gascoyne region boosting business.

ASX SMALL CAP LOSERS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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