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

On Stockhead today, nine experts’ gold stocks tips – nine!, Guy Le Page on the red metal roundup, and iron ore miners can’t stop failing upwards.

But first, the day ahead.

The National Skills Commissions will release the final estimates of skilled job vacancies for the month of September where according to CommSec, available positions unexpectedly rose by 4.9% or 10,700 job ads in the preliminary release.

And the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will be releasing its annual ‘Water Account’ at 11:30am AEDT.

WHO’S LISTING?

A few companies plan to list today.

Base and precious metal explorer Alvo Minerals (ASX:ALV) will list at 11:30am AEDT. The company is focused on the under-explored Palmeiropolis region in central Brazil.

Next cab off the rank is Ram Essential Services Property Fund (ASX:REP), listing today at 12:00pm AEDT. The company owns and manages a portfolio of commercial retail and medical real estate assets.

And thirdly, Activeport Group Ltd (ASX:ATV) plans to list at 1:00pm AEDT. The Australian software business helps companies manage their cloud connectivity from one screen end-to-end by providing a unique SD-WAN technology to operate a global edge-to-cloud network.

TRADING HALTS

The following companies are in trading halts and are expected to exit over the next two trading days:

WEDNESDAY

Firstwave Cloud Technology (ASX:FCT) – update to customer contracts
YPB (ASX:YPB) – capital raising
Trek Metals (ASX:TKM) – capital raising
Caspin Resources (ASX:CPN) – price query
Perpetual Resources (ASX:PEC) – strategic agreement
Propel Funeral Partners (ASX:PFP) – capital raising

TUESDAY

Centrex Metals (ASX:CXM) – marketing services term sheet
Cannon Resources (ASX:CNR) – capital raising
Zelira Therapeutics (ASX:ZLD) – capital raising
Allegiance Coal (ASX:AHQ) – acquisition and capital raising
Prophecy International (ASX:PRO) – capital raising
Peak Minerals (ASX:PUA) – capital raising
Impedimed (ASX:IPD) – clinical trial results
AD1 Holdings (ASX:AD1) – capital raising

MARKETS

Gold: US$1,769.92 (A$2,376.18) (+0.30%)

Silver: US$23.68 (A$31.67) (+2.22%)

Oil (WTI): US$82.85 (0.50%)

Oil (Brent): US$84.97 (+0.76%)

Coal: US$239.35 (-0.27%)

Iron 62pcFE: US$123.30 (-0.08%)

AUD/USD: $0.7476 (+0.86%)

Bitcoin: US$64,237.62 (A$85,914.60) (+4.45%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

Bryah Resources discovered a multitude of gold targets across the Lady Alma Layered Ingneous Complex at the Gabanintha Project near Meekatharra in Western Australia.

Bryah’s recent aircore drill program is paying off with the discovery of multiple gold targets across the Lady Alma Layered Igneous Complex in its Gabanintha project.https://t.co/sd4zsvY2Td #ad #ASX $BYH

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) October 19, 2021

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YESTERDAY’S WINNERS

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
LDR	Lode Resources	0.315	110	40847776
NPM	Newpeak Metals	0.002	100	5950025
OAK	Oakridge	0.002	100	1504976
ANL	Amani Gold Ltd	0.003	50	12083519
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.003	50	6239342
EVE	EVE Investments Ltd	0.006	50	141543504
PCL	Pancontinental Energ	0.0015	50	600000
IQ3	Iq3Corp Limited	0.17	42	85750
MRD	Mount Ridley Mines	0.009	29	45120451
INF	Infinity Lithium	0.215	26	7073951
TOU	Tlou Energy Ltd	0.065	25	1484036
VAL	Valor Resources Ltd	0.02	25	54786386
DLC	Delecta Limited	0.016	23	54156526
VBS	Vectus Biosystems	2	21	64386
TSC	Twenty Seven Co. Ltd	0.006	20	5073839
TER	Terracom Ltd	0.245	20	11781969
TIG	Tigers Realm Coal	0.032	19	16059733
COY	Coppermoly Limited	0.013	18	122400
POW	Protean Energy Ltd	0.013	18	5004373
STM	Sunstone Metals Ltd	0.066	18	48650038
NOR	Norwood Systems Ltd.	0.02	18	322233
BLG	Bluglass Limited	0.049	17	6369356
IPD	Impedimed Limited	0.175	17	38428055
AXP	AXP Energy Ltd	0.014	17	139911345

Recently listed explorer Lode Resources (ASX:LDR) rose after reporting “significant sulphides” — including 27.5m at ~15% sphalerite (zinc ore), 1% galena (lead ore) and 0.5% chalcopyrite (copper ore) – in maiden drilling at the ‘Webbs Consol’ silver project in NSW.

Gold explorer Victory Mines (ASX:VIC) rose after reporting promising assay results at its Coogee project.

$8m food exporter EVE Investments (ASX:EVE) rose after its latest sales update in which it reported substantial sales growth – 66% in the last quarter in Australia and over 200% in the USA.

Singular Health (ASX:SGH) won funding from the CSIRO Kick-Start Program to undertake a research project with the CSIRO in the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tool to automatically design replacement cranial implants.

YESTERDAY’S LOSERS

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
SKN	Skin Elements Ltd	0.06	-40	8543448
CGB	Cann Global Limited	0.004	-20	9362448
OVT	Ovato Limited	0.002	-20	2568145
IVT	Inventis Limited	0.11	-19	55629
SHN	Sunshine Gold Ltd	0.05	-18	12359569
AO1	Assetowl Limited	0.005	-17	606510
OEQ	Orion Equities	0.235	-16	4732
FZR	Fitzroy River Corp	0.12	-14	39100
MR1	Montem Resources	0.076	-14	12531307
KPO	Kalina Power Limited	0.029	-12	6357384
A8G	Australasian Gold	0.775	-12	2006051
EGN	Engenco Limited	0.48	-11	148868
ADY	Admiralty Resources.	0.016	-11	3400
GNM	Great Northern	0.008	-11	1628985
MEB	Medibio Limited	0.008	-11	6697927
ROG	Red Sky Energy.	0.008	-11	3702776
TMH	The Market Herald	0.665	-11	13346
AUQ	Alara Resources Ltd	0.017	-11	1299689
CVV	Caravel Minerals Ltd	0.43	-10	525477
HHR	Hartshead Resources	0.026	-10	4184952
MGL	Magontec Limited	0.31	-10	32188
BMG	BMG Resources Ltd	0.071	-10	6010988
STK	Strickland Metals	0.081	-10	7315739