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

On Stockhead today, there’s an extremely low number of women on ASX tech boards, one expert reckons we may be pretty close to a $US2,000/oz gold price and where early stage investors go wrong.

But first:

The day ahead

Data

Today sees the release of the Q2 national accounts. Annual GDP growth is expected to remain soft at just 1.4 per cent as the economy continues to slow. Quarter-on-quarter growth is forecast at 0.4 per cent, although the ANZ team thinks it will be just 0.2 per cent.

Trading halts

The following companies are scheduled to come out of a trading halt or voluntary suspension over the next 48 hours:

Wednesday:

Maximus Resources (ASX:MXR) – sale of gold mill
Classic Minerals (ASX:CLZ) – drill results
Carnarvon Petroleum (ASX:CVN) – well results
Environmental Clean Technologies (ASX:ECT) – strategy update
RBR Group (ASX:RBR) – capital raising
ADX Energy (ASX:ADX) – drilling results

Thursday:

Cleavue Technologies (ASX:CPV) – capital raising
Panoramic Resources (ASX:PAN) – capital raising
Triangle Energy Global (ASX:TEG) – capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US1,546.06 ($2,287.39) +0.61%

Silver: $US19.29 +4.83%

Oil (Brent): $US58.24 +0.26%

Oil (WTI): $US54.05 +0.19%

Coal: $US68.90 +3.14%

Iron ore 62pc Fe: $US90.58 -0.27%

AUD/USD: $US0.6761 +0.68%

Bitcoin: $US10,673.79 +2.72%

What got you talking yesterday

Over on Stockhead’s Facebook group chat, members took a look at August’s resources winners and losers.

You can join here to discuss small caps – both specific stocks as well as broader market trends.

These were the five most-tipped stocks on Stocks in Play:

Yesterday’s winners

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Market Cap	Volume
PWN	Parkway Minerals NL	0.002	+100.00%	$4.3M	300.0k
TMK	Tamaska Oil & Gas Ltd	0.002	+100.00%	$3.9M	3.0M
OEX	Oilex Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	$8.6M	250.0k
PSM	Peninsula Mines Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	$3.0M	350.0k
CCZ	Castillo Copper Ltd	0.02	+41.67%	$10.9M	13.7M
DW8	Digital Wine Ventures Ltd	0.007	+40.00%	$6.3M	37.6M
BNL	Big Star Energy Ltd	0.02	+33.33%	$7.5M	152.2M
RLC	Reedy Lagoon Corp Ltd	0.004	+33.33%	$1.6M	1.0M
SUD	Suda Pharmaceuticals Ltd	0.004	+33.33%	$14.2M	4.6M
QEM	QEM Ltd	0.14	+33.33%	$14.0M	403.9k
TTB	Total Brain Ltd	0.05	+32.43%	$38.1M	10.6M
POS	Poseidon Nickel Ltd	0.06	+29.55%	$150.6M	65.1M
FPL	Fremont Petroleum Corp Ltd	0.009	+28.57%	$15.0M	6.7M
DRE	Dreadnought Resources Ltd	0.007	+27.27%	$10.3M	58.9M
DVN	Devine Ltd	0.17	+25.93%	$27.0M	25.5k
TGA	Thorn Group Ltd	0.29	+25.53%	$47.5M	1.1M
DTM	Dart Mining NL	0.005	+25.00%	$5.1M	1.7M
SBR	Sabre Resources Ltd	0.005	+25.00%	$2.4M	1.4M
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.005	+25.00%	$5.7M	100.0k
SMD	Syndicated Metals Ltd	0.011	+22.22%	$7.3M	2.1M

Yesterday’s losers

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Market Cap	Volume
CAD	Caeneus Minerals Ltd	0.001	-50.00%	$2.1M	43.8k
APG	Austpac Resources NL	0.001	-50.00%	$2.9M	817.4k
ACP	Audalia Resources Ltd	0.005	-37.50%	$3.2M	6.8k
VPR	Volt Power Group Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	$8.2M	24.7M
UTR	Ultracharge Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	$1.1M	531.3k
PNN	PepinNini Lithium Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	$2.5M	2.0M
GLV	Global Vanadium Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	$6.3M	741.7k
ZGL	Zicom Group Ltd	0.08	-27.27%	$17.4M	258.3k
RFN	Reffind Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	$1.9M	331.5k
ALT	Analytica Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	$10.6M	160.1k
KP2	Kore Potash PLC	0.03	-22.86%	$23.2M	7.0k
LSA	Lachlan Star Ltd	0.007	-22.22%	$5.3M	37.3k
CT1	CCP Technologies Ltd	0.011	-21.43%	$5.6M	84.1k
UUV	UUV Aquabotix Ltd	0.004	-20.00%	$1.6M	800.0k
GBZ	GBM Resources Ltd	0.004	-20.00%	$4.4M	600.0k
GWR	GWR Group Ltd	0.09	-17.27%	$23.1M	174.4k
CLI	CropLogic Ltd	0.05	-16.92%	$22.0M	16.9M