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

On Stockhead today, Guy Le Page tackles the gold price apes, US rig activity continues to climb and CoinJar joins the Stockhead team

But first … the day ahead.

Scheduled to list today is mining services company Aquirian (ASX:AQN). You can read more about the company here.

TRADING HALTS

The following companies are in trading halts and are expected out in the next two trading days:

Today

Scorpion Minerals (ASX:SCN) – capital raising
XState Resources (ASX:XST) – capital raising

Wednesday

Metal Tiger (ASX:MTR) – capital raising
Jayex (ASX:JTL) – strategic investment
Capricorn Metals (ASX:CMM) – acquisition
Spacetalk (ASX:SPA) – response to AFR report of legal action
Caeneus Minerals (ASX:CAD) – capital raising
Simble Solutions (ASX:SIS) – capital raising
Caprice Resources (ASX:CRS) – acquisition
Theta Gold Mines (ASX:TGM) – financing transaction
Dubber (ASX:DUB) – capital raising

MARKETS

Gold: $US1,796.70 ($2,432.75) (-0.26%)

Silver: $US25.18 ($34.11) (-0.09%)

Oil (WTI): $US72.18 (+0.15%)

Oil (Brent): $US74.80 (+0.99%)

Coal: $US146.17 (-0.01%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US215.16 (-0.40%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7382 (+0.24%)

Bitcoin: $US$37,787.85 (+9.51%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

BITCOIN IS ON THE REBOUND.

#BTC +15% pic.twitter.com/P9ZFMWfVi8

— Investing.com (@Investingcom) July 26, 2021

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Also, be sure to check in at 10.20am each day for our daily ‘10 at 10’ column — a live summary of winners & losers at the opening bell.

YESTERDAY’S WINNERS

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Conico (ASX:CNJ) rose with news its first ever drill-hole at the Ryberg project in Greenland intersected significant sulphide mineralisation.

Alligator Energy (ASX:AGE) told shareholders it was being included in a major US-listed American ETF which tracks uranium.

Agtech Terragen (ASX:TGH) rose off the back of its quarterly cash flow and activities report.

YESTERDAY’S LOSERS

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Prominence Energy (ASX:PRM) told shareholders the deal to acquire 20% of Patriot Hydrogen was off. The company said it would look for other opportunities in the green hydrogen space but cited unresolved issues for pulling out of the deal with Patriot.