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

On Stockhead today: gold is good, but which miners offer the best returns, how ASX pot stocks are maturing, Orthocell’s technology might have saved Superman and Clinuvel’s FDA approval caps off 4000% rise.

But first:

The day ahead

Today the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its financial stability report.

The following companies are in trading halts or suspensions and are expected to exit within the next 48 hours:

Today:

Salt Lake Potash (ASX:SO4) – completion of BFS

ALT Resources (ASX:ARS) – funding agreement

iCandy Interactive (ASX:ICI) – joint venture agreement

Monday:

EnviroSuite (ASX:EVS) – capital raise

Cellmid (ASX:CDY) – capital raise

New Standard Energy (ASX:NSE) – response to ASX query

Cyprium Metals (ASX:CYM) – drilling results

Artemis Resources (ASX:ARV) – capital raise

Stavely Minerals (ASX:SVY) – capital raise

Spectrum Metals (ASX:SPX) – response to Venus Metals legal proceedings

Markets

Gold: $US1,503.21 (+0.06%)

Silver: $US17.77 (+0.45%)

Oil (WTI): $US52.55 (-0.04%)

Oil (Brent): $US58.12 (-0.24%)

Coal: $US69.42 (-0.33%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US91.59 (-2.07%)

AUD/USD: $US0.6769 (+0.65%)

Bitcoin: $US8,539.17 (-0.58%)

What got you talking yesterday

ASX shareholders were pleased to read of some rule changes…

Shareholders to benefit from sweeping changes to #ASX listing rules https://t.co/VCcZNK8z8i

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) October 10, 2019

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These were the five most-tipped stocks (weekly) on Stocks in Play:

This was the movement amongst ASX sectors last week:

ASX 200 +0.01%

ASX small ordinaries -0.69%

Energy -0.50%

Materials -0.02%

Industrials +0.19%

Consumer discretionary -0.19%

Consumer staples +0.50%

Healthcare +0.27%

Financials +0.07%

IT -0.34%

Communications +0.19%

Utilities -0.33%

Real estate -0.58%

Yesterday’s winners

Yesterday’s losers