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

On Stockhead today, American employee experience tech Limeade is lighting up the ASX boards today, a quirky broker Christmas yarn from The Secret Broker and these junior explorers are taking the low-cost path to production.

But first…

The day ahead

After a busy week in economic data, today is quiet. But keep your eye out for Bloomberg’s monthly economic survey, due out at 11am.

The following companies are in trading halts or voluntary suspensions and are expected to exit in the next two trading days.

Friday:

Tigers Realm Coal (ASX:TIG) – capital raising

Monday:

Urbanise.Com (ASX:UBN) – capital raising
Middle Island Resources (ASX:MDI) – capital raising
Prospect Resources (ASX:PSC) – capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US1,478.96 ($2,147.60) (+0.22%)

Silver: $US17.10 (-0.15%)

Oil (WTI): $US61.22 (+0.43%)

Oil (Brent): $US66.37 (+0.45%)

Coal: $US68.50 (+0.15%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US91.99 (-0.10%)

AUD/USD: $US0.6887 (+0.50%)

Bitcoin: $US7153.94 (+0.18%)

What got you talking yesterday

Our readers are always fans of our Money Talks segment and this week’s edition with Ron Shamgar from Tamin Asset Management was no exception.

The number of card transactions have increased by ~10% pa for the last decade — "we see that trend only accelerating into the foreseeable future." @RonShamgar says. $SMP $TYR $EML #ASX #ausbiz https://t.co/1wTVGHW9dL

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) December 18, 2019

These were the most tipped stocks (weekly) on Stocks in Play:

Yesterday’s winners

Code	Name	Price	% Gain	Market Cap	Volume
ICN	Icon Energy	0.012	33.33%	$7.2M	269.73K
VAR	Variscan Mines Ltd	0.002	33.33%	$156K	2.14M
DRE	Dreadnought Resources	0.008	33.33%	$13.7M	3.09M
PWN	Parkway Minerals	0.009	28.57%	$11.0M	1.90M
EGR	Ecograf	0.094	25.33%	$22.2M	60.00K
MGT	Magnetite Mines	0.005	25.00%	$3.9M	1.61M
BUY	Bounty Oil and Gas NL	0.005	25.00%	$4.8M	0.00K
EM1	Emerge Gaming	0.016	23.08%	$11.2M	7.56M
WKT	Walkabout Resources	0.22	22.22%	$71.2M	912.54K
ARM	Aurora Minerals Ltd	0.011	22.22%	$2.6M	343.82K
ANR	Anatara Lifesciences Ltd	0.225	21.62%	$11.2M	294.77K
QTM	Quantum Health Group Ltd	0.04	21.21%	$43.9M	578.44K
QGL	Quantum Graphite	0.07	20.69%	$15.3M	373.93K
BRV	Big River Gold	0.018	20.00%	$23.7M	9.71M
ICT	iCollege Ltd	0.054	20.00%	$28.4M	50.00K
VRC	Volt Resources	0.012	20.00%	$18.4M	3.68M
LI3	Lithium Consolidated Mineral	0.03	20.00%	$4.5M	282.75K
CLQ	Clean TeQ	0.24	20.00%	$179.2M	3.56M
MGL	Magontec Ltd	0.018	20.00%	$20.5M	1.01K

Yesterday’s losers

Code	Name	Price	% Change	Market Cap	Volume
DDD	3D Resources Ltd	0.001	-33.33%	$1.7M	10.00K
GBP	Global Petroleum	0.02	-33.33%	$4.1M	40.00K
HNG	HGL Ltd	0.25	-30.56%	$15.2M	34.79K
CIO	Connected IO	0.003	-25.00%	$5.5M	300.00K
TYX	Tyranna Resources	0.003	-25.00%	$2.9M	28.57K
SI6	Six Sigma Metals	0.003	-25.00%	$1.9M	1.00M
LAA	Latam Autos Ltd	0.031	-22.50%	$20.7M	1.25M
KZR	Kalamazoo Resources	0.22	-20.00%	$22.4M	990.05K
CCJ	County Coal Ltd	0.004	-20.00%	$1.2M	472.05K
RVS	Revasum	0.57	-18.57%	$20.1M	209.20K
BGT	Bio-Gene Tech	0.195	-17.02%	$26.6M	960.01K
NTL	New Talisman Gold	0.005	-16.67%	$16.2M	600.00K
WCN	White Cliff Minerals	0.005	-16.67%	$2.8M	2.00K
SRZ	Stellar Resources Ltd	0.01	-16.67%	$4.6M	100.00K
BSM	Bass Metals Ltd	0.005	-16.67%	$16.9M	23.20M
AAP	Australian Agri Projects	0.011	-15.38%	$2.0M	30.00K
AMT	Allegra Orthopaedics	0.175	-14.63%	$20.4M	37.75K