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

On Stockhead today, carbon credits are still booming in 2022, can Imagion shake off Covid-interrupted syndrome, and how about the cricket?

TRADING HALTS

The following companies went into trading halts today and are expected out in the next few days:

Asaplus Resources (ASX:AJY) – pending announcement (no details)

Critical Resources (ASX:CRR) – drilling update

Carnavale Resources (ASX:CAV) – assay results

Zuleika Gold (ASX:ZAG) – capital raising

MARKETS (prices updated at 8.30am AEDT)

Gold: US$1,817.29 ($2,521.56) (-0.26%)

Silver: US$22.95 (-0.52%)

Oil (WTI): US$84.26 (+2.62%)

Oil (Brent): US$86.47 (+2.37%)

Coal: US$220 (+5.01%)

Iron 62pc Fe: US$126.24 (-1.25%)

AUD/USD: US$0.7208 (-1.03%)

Bitcoin: US$42,951.43 ($59,596.83) (-0.32%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

To keep up to date with Stockhead coverage, follow our Twitter page or sign up to our members-only Facebook group here.

For all you crypto lovers, Stockhead’s Coinhead Facebook group is the place to share your views, insights, tips and ideas.

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.

FRIDAY’S BIGGEST SMALL CAP WINNERS

(Stocks highlighted in yellow rose after making announcements during the trading day).

Scroll or swipe to reveal table. Click headings to sort.

Junior explorers with market moving announcements held their gains into Friday’s closing bell, as Ardea Resources (ASX:ARL) led the market after confirming a big high-grade nickel-copper-PGE sulphide hit at its ‘Emu Lake’ project near Kalgoorlie.

The find is a by-product of ARL’s search efforts in a new exploration space called the Western Ultramafic, around 1km south of where most previous exploration took place in the area. Mineralisation remains open in all directions, with with Ardea controlling 20km of strike on the new target zone.

Lithium-gold play Essential Metals (ASX:ESS) also found a spot on the leaderboard, after providing an update on its Pioneer Dome lithium project where air-core drilling will follow up on “on open or unexplained anomalism generated from the August 2021 drill programme”, the company said.

And fintech company IOUpay (ASX:IOU) made a late rally, climbing by around 17% to 24c after announcing it’s received government approval for an acquisition in Malaysia first announced in January 2021. The finalised acquisition of Sibu Kurnia Marine Sdn Bhd will allow IOUpay to secure a money lending licence in the Malaysian market.

FRIDAY’S BIGGEST SMALL CAP LOSERS

(Stocks highlighted in yellow rose after making announcements during the trading day).

Scroll or swipe to reveal table. Click headings to sort.