Top 10 at 10: These ASX stocks are dancing early this morning

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.

Oro Verde (ASX: OVL) are up 150 per cent after announcing it had bought into a Ugandan rare earths project. Gold explorer Nova Minerals (ASX: NVA) have jumped as well after announcing successful survey results.

A Byron Energy (ASX: BYE) operated and Metgasco (ASX: MEL) well is being plugged and abandoned after it was deemed uncommercial. Both stocks fell this morning.