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

On Stockhead today, how neobanks might succeed in Australia, the gold IPO play hunting elephants in Nevada, and the asset class that’s been ignored for ‘nearly a decade’.

But first…

The day ahead

It’s a quiet schedule to end the week on the local data front. The following companies are in trading halts and are expected to exit in the next two days:

Friday: 

THC Global (ASC:THC) – capital raising
Catalyst Metals (ASX:CYL) – capital raising & project acquisition
Mesoblast (ASX:MSB) – corporate update
Energy Technology (ASX:EGY) – capital raising
Tigers Realm Coal (ASX:TIG) – capital raising

Monday:

Hexagon Energy Materials (ASX:HXG) – acquisition
A2 Milk (ASX:A2M) – guidance revision
Essential Metals (ASX:ESS) – test work results
Vital Metals (ASX:VML) – offtake agreement
Firefly Resources (ASX:FFR) – asset disposal
Etherstack (ASX:ESK) – capital raising
Alligator Energy (ASX:AGE) – capital raising
Acrux (ASX:ACR) – capital raising
Beston (ASX:BFC) – capital raising
Latitude Consolidated (ASX:LCD) – capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US1,883.76 ($2,451.08) (+1.05%)

Silver: $US25.98 ($32.42) (+2.54%)

Oil (WTI): $US48.34 (+1.09%)

Oil (Brent): $US51.48 (+0.78%)

Coal: $US83.00 (-0.34%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US151.37 (+0.41%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7627 (+0.66%)

Bitcoin: $US22,973.97 (+10.6%)

What got you talking yesterday

Readers took an interest in the latest edition of MoneyTalks, where Simon Popple of UK-based Brookville Capital highlighted some gold stocks that could prove to be nice Christmas presents in the year ahead.

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