Top 10 at 10: These ASX stocks are celebrating this morning

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Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade.

It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms.

The market opens at 10am (eastern time) and the data is taken at 10:15am, once every stock has commenced trading.

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made potentially market-moving announcements:

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Volume
NWE	Norwest Energy NL	0.01	+40.00%	17.6M
EER	East Energy Resources Ltd	0.004	+33.33%	19.2k
PNN	PepinNini Lithium Ltd	0.004	+33.33%	220.0k
KWR	Kingwest Resources Ltd	0.32	+18.52%	138.2k
DTR	Dateline Resources Ltd	0.006	+16.67%	719.3k
BNL	Big Star Energy Ltd	0.01	+16.67%	8.1M
BYE	Byron Energy Ltd	0.34	+15.25%	1.8M
FPL	Fremont Petroleum Corp Ltd	0.01	+14.29%	477.3k
KEY	Key Petroleum Ltd	0.007	+14.29%	22.7M
XRF	XRF Scientific Ltd	0.23	+12.50%	538.8k

A series of resources and energy players jumped at the opening bell, while mining services company XRF Scientific (ASX: XRF) rose by 12.5 per cent after releasing its 2019 annual report.

On the other side of the ledger, AJ Lucas Group (ASX: AJL) slumped by more than 40 per cent after announcing a suspension to drilling operations at its Preston New Road exploration site.

These 10 stocks were lagging the pack in morning trade:

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Volume
AJL	AJ Lucas Group Ltd	0.13	-40.91%	204.4k
BLY	Boart Longyear Ltd	0.01	-22.22%	11.7M
UTR	Ultracharge Ltd	0.002	-20.00%	15.4M
CEL	Challenger Exploration Ltd	0.03	-18.18%	868.0k
MTH	Mithril Resources Ltd	0.005	-16.67%	200.0k
TRL	Tanga Resources Ltd	0.003	-14.29%	185.0k
RMI	Resource Mining Corp Ltd	0.01	-14.29%	10.0k
AER	Aeeris Ltd	0.13	-13.33%	38.0k
SDA	SpeedCast International Ltd	1.47	-13.06%	382.1k
IPB	IPB Petroleum Ltd	0.02	-10.00%	341.0k