Coming up on Stockhead today, the super-fibre worth nearly $1 million a kilo, companies cashing in by turning trash into treasure, and how a tiny ASX gaming company convinced Formula 1 to jump in bed.

But first, here’s what you need to know right now:

 

The day ahead in data

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s assistant governor Christopher Kent is delivering a speech today, but there is little else in the way of economic data today.

 

Company news

Just Visioneering Technologies (ASX:VTI) with eight million shares out of escrow today. You can see Stockhead‘s wrap of companies releasing escrowed shares here.

There are 10 companies which may come out of trading halts today. Hooo boy.

Several of them have moved into voluntary suspension, which a company undertakes when it is unable to release information to the market within the 48-hour window that a trading halt provides.

  • Leigh Creek Energy (ASX:LCK), material announcement regarding its project
  • Wisr (ASX:WZR) – capital raising
  • Emerge Gaming (ASX:EM1) – capital raising
  • Geopacific Resources (ASX:GPR) – capital raising
  • Security Matters (ASX:SMX), capital raise
  • Diatreme Resources (ASX:DRX), capital raise
  • Vivid Technology (ASX:VIV), capital raise
  • The Data Exchange (ASX:DXN), capital raise
  • Orinoco Gold (ASX:OGX), capital raise
  • Consolidated Zinc (ASX:CZL), related to the company’s ore toll treatment and offtake agreement

It will be very interesting to see the result of Emerge’s capital raise, as the company has been extremely active of late. Last week it announced a tie-up with fellow mobile gamer iCandy (ASX:ICI), which followed its tie-up with cloud gaming platform GameCloud to make a video game streaming platform it hopes will be recognised as the ‘Netflix of gaming’. (It must have been bummed then that the significantly-more-resourced Google announced the same thing a week later).

 

Commodities

Gold: $USD1319.27 ($1,846.71) -0.37%

Silver: $USD15.45 -0.61%

Oil (Brent): $USD68.03 +1.18%

Oil (WTI): $USD60.07 +1.97%

Coal: $USD88.68 +0.52%

Iron ore 62% fe: $USD85.82 -0.08%

AUD/USD: $USD0.7143

 

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What got you talking yesterday

It was yet another gaming stock that was generating interest on the Stockhead Facebook chat forum yesterday, with news Animoca Brands (ASX:AB1) had somehow convinced the world’s richest motorsport brand Formula 1 to co-create a blockchain-based F1 game. Co-founder Yat Siu had a chat with Stockhead yesterday about that deal.

These were the five most-discussed stocks on trading gossip forum HotCopper at close on Tuesday:

 

 

Yesterday’s winners

Arc Exploration (ASX:ARX) was the day’s biggest winner, rising 48 per cent to 19c after it announced on Monday that it had acquired an advanced stage copper project.

The company has acquired in full Cyprium, which is involved in a copper project in the Murchison region of Western Australia.

And though it’s a little out of the small cap market, there were big waves around the country when $38 billion Wesfarmers (ASX:WES), owner of massive Australian brands Coles, Kmart, Target, Officeworks and Bunnings, lobbed a $1.5 billion offer for midcap rare earths miner Lynas Corp (ASX:LYC).

Lynas shares rose 35 per cent to $2.10.

ASX code Company Name Price Percentage Change Market Cap Volume
ARX Arc Exploration Ltd 0.19 48% $4,700,000 987
EVE EVE Investments Ltd 0.007 40% $15,400,000 32.1M
LYC Lynas Corp Ltd 2.1 35% $1,394,600,000 38.7M
BAS Bass Oil Ltd 0.004 33% $10,400,000 17.0M
DHR Dark Horse Resources Ltd 0.004 33% $7,900,000 1.1M
GLV Global Vanadium Ltd 0.004 33% $11,300,000 9.1M
MSR Manas Resources Ltd 0.004 33% $10,600,000 2.0M
AFR African Energy Resources Ltd 0.02 31% $10,700,000 672.9k
EM2 Eagle Mountain Mining Ltd 0.17 27% $15,300,000 178.9k
EN1 engage:BDR Ltd 0.04 26% $18,000,000 157.4M
AHL AHAlife Holdings Ltd 0.01 25% $6,700,000 20.0k
EFE Eastern Iron Ltd 0.005 25% $2,100,000 868.3k
LRS Latin Resources Ltd 0.003 25% $8,200,000 5.4M
OEX Oilex Ltd 0.005 25% $12,900,000 8.0k
CM8 Crowd Media Holdings Ltd 0.02 23% $3,700,000 829.3k
HNR Hannans Ltd 0.011 22% $21,900,000 200.0k
RAG Ragnar Metals Ltd 0.011 22% $3,400,000 44.4k
TPS Threat Protect Australia Ltd 0.22 22% $28,700,000 98.3k
AYR Alloy Resources Ltd 0.003 20% $4,700,000 2.2M
SPT Splitit Payments Ltd 1.32 19% $345,800,000 12.9M
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Yesterday’s losers

Skin Elements (ASX:SKN) had an absolute rollercoaster of a day. Its shares jumped nearly 40 per cent to 6c in early trade after announcing a big Chinese distribution deal.

The moisturiser company announced a deal with Chinese distributor Henan Huatuo Health Management (HHHM), through which HHHM will order $20m over the next three years starting June 30.

But by close of trade, its shares had fallen 23 per cent on Monday’s close of 4.3c, to finish at 3.3c.

That was due to some less exciting news also released to the ASX yesterday: it had to answer ASX price and accounting queries it received two weeks ago. Read Nick Sundich’s wrap of that here.

ASX code Company Name Price Percentage Change Market Cap Volume
VAR Variscan Mines Ltd 0.001 -50% $1,300,000 3.5M
SF1 STEMify Ltd 0.003 -25% $1,100,000 11.1M
CGM Cougar Metals NL 0.001 -50% $1,100,000 75.0k
VPR Volt Power Group Ltd 0.002 -33% $8,200,000 1.4M
ANL Amani Gold Ltd 0.004 -33% $7,400,000 19.1M
BAH Bojun Agriculture Holdings Ltd 0.11 -27% $13,400,000 90.4k
SRO Shareroot Ltd 0.002 -25% $2,400,000 21.6M
SRN Surefire Resources NL 0.003 -25% $1,300,000 50.0k
PNN PepinNini Lithium Ltd 0.003 -25% $2,500,000 400.0k
EXO Ennox Group Ltd 0.003 -25% $5,300,000 4.1M
SKN Skin Elements Ltd 0.03 -23% $4,800,000 3.8M
UUV UUV Aquabotix Ltd 0.02 -23% $3,200,000 376.2k
FGO Flamingo AI Ltd 0.007 -22% $7,800,000 9.4M
VAL Valor Resources Ltd 0.002 -20% $3,800,000 500.0k
THD Thred Ltd 0.002 -20% $3,600,000 4.5M
SCI Silver City Minerals Ltd 0.008 -20% $2,300,000 275.6k
PSM Peninsula Mines Ltd 0.004 -20% $3,500,000 106.7k
MDX Mindax Ltd 0.004 -20% $3,500,000 40
GTE Great Western Exploration Ltd 0.004 -20% $3,900,000 7.3M
GGE Grand Gulf Energy Ltd 0.004 -20% $3,800,000 1.0M
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That’s all you need to know. Go go go!

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