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

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On Stockhead today, how tech is changing healthcare and where professional ASX investors are looking, Australia’s medicinal cannabis industry is budding again and smaller Aussie iron ore miners are joining the majors in boosting profit margins.

But first…

The day ahead

It’s a quiet one on the local data front, with Q2 employment figures across the Tasman in New Zealand. Later on there’s ADP employment data and ISM non-manufacturing figures out of the US.

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

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

Thursday:

STEMify (ASX:SF1) – acquisition
Surefire Resources (ASX:SRN) – project acquisitions
Caprice Resources (ASX:CRS) – acquisition and capital raising
IntelliHR (ASX:IHR) – capital raising
Tubi (ASX:2BE) – capital raising
Elementos (ASX:ELT) – capital raising
Locality Planning Energy Holdings (ASX:LPE) – capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US2,018.95 ($2,818.37) (+2.29%)

Silver: $US25.95 (+7.18%)

Oil (WTI): $US41.53 (+1.27%)

Oil (Brent): $US44.33 (+0.41%)

Coal: $US57.55 (+0.23%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US114.21 (+4.88%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7162 (+0.53%)

Bitcoin: $US11,220.54 (-0.04%)

What got you talking yesterday

Readers took an interest in Rachel Williamson’s summary of investment opportunities in Australia’s secondary trading markets, as well as our recap of the latest moves in Aussie house prices (bad news: they’re falling).

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