Top 10 at 11: It’s all pearls, primates, Parkinson’s and potash as far as the eye can see today

Good morning, and welcome to Stockhead’s Top 10 at shortly-before-11-ish, to highlight the best (and sometimes worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data, to provide 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 ASX stock has started trading – for better or worse – and then I do my best to make sense of who’s moving where and why it might be happening.

WINNERS

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

Alterity Therapeutics (ASX:ATH) is moving quickly this morning, following the announcement of promising new data on the effect of the company’s ATH434 drug in a Parkinson’s disease primate model.

Atlas Pearls (ASX:ATP) is also climbing this morning, off the back of a massive increase in revenue from loose pearl sales at a recent auction in Japan, which saw the company achieve a 272% increase in average pearl price, from $37.77 to $102.69 on pcp.

SaaS logistics firm Yojee (ASX:YOJ) is up this morning on news of a 1:1 entitlement issue at 0.002 per share to raise up to approximately $2,611,970.

Reward Minerals (ASX:RWD) is rising on news that it has entered into a binding share sale agreement with the receivers at Kalium Lakes, to acquire the Beyondie sulphate of potash project for $20 million.

Medicinal kava company The Calmer Co International (ASX:CCO) is up this morning, after raising $700,000 through  convertible notes placed with top shareholders.

LOSERS

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

Stelar Metals (ASX:SLB) is falling this morning in the wake of a fairly uninspired announcement that drilling is complete at the Trident lithium prospect in NSW, and that assay results are on the way.

Similarly, Industrial Minerals (ASX:IND) has updated the market on where things are at with exploration drilling for non-construction material minerals at Pippingarra, an active quarry operation within mining lease M45/258 in the Pilbara lithium district.