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


Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
MSI	Multistack Internat.	0.025	100	2359275
SNG	Siren Gold	0.45	80	10743283
ARR	American Rare Earths	0.15	69	70309241
APG	Austpac Resources NL	0.0015	50	545000
PCL	Pancontinental Oil	0.0015	50	3360000
FIN	FIN Resources Ltd	0.026	37	30098204
SIS	Simble Solutions	0.038	36	8227492
JHL	Jayex Healthcare Ltd	0.062	35	3861089
ENR	Encounter Resources	0.285	33	1518612
ENV	Enova Mining Limited	0.03	30	1655958
CV1	Cv Check Ltd	0.15	30	1004346
PEK	Peak Resources	0.039	30	14224621
PWN	Parkway Minls NL	0.009	29	21007308
REE	Rarex Limited	0.205	28	22752693
BOA	Boadicea Resources	0.38	27	294154
NXM	Nexus Minerals Ltd	0.125	25	4929666
PLL	Piedmont Lithium Ltd	0.6	25	68001987
WHK	Whitehawk Limited	0.155	24	7932143
CXX	Cradle Resources Ltd	0.06	20	23006
DCX	Discovex Res Ltd	0.006	20	17037470
XST	Xstate Resources	0.003	20	5638334

Yesterday’s losers


Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
MSI	Multistack Internat.	0.025	100	2359275
SNG	Siren Gold	0.45	80	10743283
ARR	American Rare Earths	0.15	69	70309241
APG	Austpac Resources NL	0.0015	50	545000
PCL	Pancontinental Oil	0.0015	50	3360000
FIN	FIN Resources Ltd	0.026	37	30098204
SIS	Simble Solutions	0.038	36	8227492
JHL	Jayex Healthcare Ltd	0.062	35	3861089
ENR	Encounter Resources	0.285	33	1518612
ENV	Enova Mining Limited	0.03	30	1655958
CV1	Cv Check Ltd	0.15	30	1004346
PEK	Peak Resources	0.039	30	14224621
PWN	Parkway Minls NL	0.009	29	21007308
REE	Rarex Limited	0.205	28	22752693
BOA	Boadicea Resources	0.38	27	294154
NXM	Nexus Minerals Ltd	0.125	25	4929666
PLL	Piedmont Lithium Ltd	0.6	25	68001987
WHK	Whitehawk Limited	0.155	24	7932143
CXX	Cradle Resources Ltd	0.06	20	23006
DCX	Discovex Res Ltd	0.006	20	17037470
XST	Xstate Resources	0.003	20	5638334