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

On Stockhead today, Sprott’s buying all the uranium, is FMG undersold, and how long before we can buy CBD at the chemist?

But first … the day ahead.

Who’s listing?

Scheduled to list today is ‘Zero Carbon’ Vulcan Energy spin-off Kuniko (ASX:KNI) at 11:30am, and Chile gold-copper explorer Culpeo Minerals (ASX:CPO) at 1pm.

TRADING HALTS

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

Tuesday

Beacon Minerals (ASX:BCN) – acquisition
BlackEarth Minerals (ASX:BEM) – exploration results
Hyperion Metals (ASX:HYM) – capital raising
Australian Vanadium (ASX:AVL) – capital raising

Wednesday

Range International (ASX:RAN) – capital raising
Bigtincan (ASX:BTH) – capital raising
Virtus Health (ASX:VRT) – acquisition and capital raising
Kyckr (ASX:KYK) – capital raising
Althea (ASX:AGH) – capital raising
1300 Smiles (ASX:ONT) – potential change of control transaction

MARKETS

Gold: $US1,805.34 ($2,503.24) (+1.37%)

Silver: $US23.63 ($32.76) (+2.68%)

Oil (WTI): $US65.53 (+5.46%)

Oil (Brent): $US68.65 (+5.32%)

Coal: $US167.75 (-1.84%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US159.40 (-0.71%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7211 (+1.09%)

Bitcoin: $US49,454.44 (+2.08%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

It’s all about small cap stocks with big, potentially company-making discoveries.

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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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The size and scale of Azure Minerals’ (ASX:AZS) ‘Andover’ nickel-copper discovery in WA — 40% owned by famous prospector Mark Creasy — keeps getting bigger.

There was more high grade gold news from Nexus Minerals’ (ASX:NXM) ‘Wallbrook’ project in WA, where new hits like 10m at 5.49g/t gold – which ended in mineralisation — follow on from some solid results earlier this month.

IDT Australia (ASX:IDT) jumped 25% after announcing that it has formalised plans with the Australian Government to potentially assist with the production of a COVID-19 vaccine.

New Zealand fuel distributor Z Energy (ASX:ZEL) announced it was being acquired by Ampol (ASX:ALD).

And red-hot lithium play Vulcan Energy (ASX:VUL) was up almost $1.50 — or +14% — after announcing it has retained major European bank BNP Paribas as advisor in the lead-up to the completion of the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for its Zero Carbon Lithium project in Germany.

YESTERDAY’S LOSERS

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