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

On Stockhead today, the stocks that dominated in July, why silver is no longer the poor man’s gold and will it take a pandemic to make Aussie secondary markets successful?

But first…

The day ahead

Today the Reserve Bank board will hold its monthly meeting, its first since Victoria’s battle with COVID-19 escalated to the point of a second lockdown.

Potentially market moving economic data includes Australia’s trade balance and the weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence index.

The following companies are in trading halts and are expected to exit in the next couple of trading days:

Tuesday:

Roto-Gro (ASX:RGI) – funding agreement
Heron Resources (ASX:HRR) – mine strategy update
Aus Tin Mining (ASX:ANW) – capital raising & acquisition
Syntonic (ASX:SYT) – potential divestment
Red Sky Energy (ASX:ROG) – capital raising
Jadar Resources (ASX:JDR) – acquisition
Indiana Resources (ASX:IDA) – acquisition

Wednesday:

Great Western Exploration (ASX:GTE) – project update
Ausgold (ASX:AUC) – capital raising
Splitit Payments (ASX:SPT) – capital raising
Empire Resources (ASX:ERL) – capital raising
Zenith Minerals (ASX:ZNC) – drilling results
Genex Power (ASX:GNX) – equity investment
Dreadnought Resources (ASX:DRE) – capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US1,976.80 ($2,774.67) (+0.11%)

Silver: $US24.32 (-0.09%)

Oil (WTI): $US40.75 (+1.22%)

Oil (Brent): $US43.84 (+1.25%)

Coal: $US57.20 (+7.78%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US108.90 (+0.79%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7123 (-0.28%)

Bitcoin: $US11,384.12 (+2.31%)

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