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

On Stockhead today, the graphite industry is ‘on the road to recovery’, the ASX small caps leading the fight against cancer and the $2bn R&D win for resources and biotechs.

But first…

The day ahead

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

Thursday:

Drednought Resources (ASX:DRE) – exploration results

Friday: 

DGR Global (ASX:DGR) – capital raising
Myanmar Metals (ASX:MYL) – capital raising
Liontown Resources (ASX:LTR) – updated pre-feasibility study
Diatreme Resources (ASX:DRX) – capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US1,886.90 ($2,643.85) (+0.52%)

Silver: $US23.76 ($33.29) (+2.94%)

Oil (WTI): $US39.97 (-1.72%)

Oil (Brent): $US42.05 (-1.41%)

Coal: $US60.50 (-1.22%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US121.84 (+0.67%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7137 (+0.49%)

Bitcoin: $US10,651.92 (+0.63%)

What got you talking yesterday

The eSports sector has boomed in 2020 and a number of ASX stocks have been beneficiaries. Our Twitter followers were particularly interested to find out who the winners were.

Frequent viewers of eSports have risen by 50 million in just 2 years https://t.co/RJojpFSasz $ICI $MSM $EM1

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) October 7, 2020

Another popular article yesterday was our High Voltage column where we recap all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to battery metals. After a couple of soft years, market sentiment in the sector is improving and a number of ASX stocks have benefited, particularly in the lithium sector.

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Also, be sure to check in at 10.15am each day for our daily 10 at 10 column — a summary of the top winners & losers at the ASX opening using live data.

Yesterday’s winners

Note: Stocks in yellow made market-moving announcements yesterday

Yesterday’s losers