Australian stocks are set to snap a multi-week stay in the red sea after the local bourse took its cue from Wall Street. It closed higher after the US Senate reached a deal to avoid defaulting on debts.

The short-term raise in debt ceiling will extend through to December.

Miners and tech companies led the way today, but the big winner this week is Energy, with the Energy Index climbing 4.5% for the week to date.

The benchmark ASX200 is up 1.82% for this week to 7,316.3 points.
 

ASX SMALL CAP WINNERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks for October 1 – October 8 [intraday]:

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Code Company Price ReturnWRoll% MktCap$
JGH Jade Gas Holdings 0.081 995 $ 40,903,557.31
ANL Amani Gold Ltd 0.0025 150 $ 50,162,646.32
WOO Wooboard Tech Ltd 0.002 100 $ 7,644,325.48
YPB YPB Group Ltd 0.004 100 $ 19,967,282.07
STM Sunstone Metals Ltd 0.04 82 $ 88,399,505.84
RXH Rewardle Holding Ltd 0.026 73 $ 6,842,179.34
TIG Tigers Realm Coal 0.027 69 $ 313,600,856.83
ECT Env Clean Tech Ltd. 0.015 67 $ 18,676,882.88
ITG Intega Group Limited 0.88 54 $ 368,119,514.40
ADX ADX Energy Ltd 0.0105 50 $ 26,583,175.23
PBX Pacific Bauxite Ltd 0.003 50 $ 1,189,842.10
PCL Pancontinental Energ 0.0015 50 $ 10,551,334.22
RVS Revasum 0.63 48 $ 57,037,964.94
AUH Austchina Holdings 0.01 43 $ 14,380,194.89
PHL Propell Holdings Ltd 0.14 41 $ 7,993,651.46
WBT Weebit Nano Ltd 3.51 38 $ 425,217,949.86
NXM Nexus Minerals Ltd 0.44 38 $ 93,157,634.98
YAL Yancoal Aust Ltd 3.66 36 $ 4,938,443,494.38
SMI Santana Minerals Ltd 0.21 35 $ 22,806,527.20
VIA Viagold Rare Earth 0.65 35 $ 48,321,194.32
ATC Altech Chem Ltd 0.086 34 $ 106,778,232.84
NPM Newpeak Metals 0.002 33 $ 13,654,870.31
AKM Aspire Mining Ltd 0.105 31 $ 50,763,698.50
IXU Ixup Limited 0.215 30 $ 180,108,549.06
JAY Jayride Group 0.26 30 $ 45,859,907.08
PRO Prophecy Internation 0.71 29 $ 48,068,200.50
CAD Caeneus Minerals 0.018 29 $ 77,158,891.33
RDT Red Dirt Metals Ltd 0.77 28 $ 101,463,612.16
GSN Great Southern 0.068 28 $ 34,384,908.56
TCG Turaco Gold Limited 0.125 28 $ 42,084,168.25
OMH OM Holdings Limited 1.1975 27 $ 856,803,070.92
DOR Doriemus PLC 0.33 27 $ 39,692,405.61
ATS Australis Oil & Gas 0.066 27 $ 78,745,137.19
GLV Global Oil & Gas 0.033 27 $ 28,534,757.16
DEG De Grey Mining 1.215 26 $ 1,564,018,243.81
MCE Matrix C & E Ltd 0.2 25 $ 20,464,285.80
ARO Astro Resources NL 0.005 25 $ 20,703,061.57
OEX Oilex Ltd 0.005 25 $ 28,442,151.78
PAK Pacific American Hld 0.02 25 $ 6,371,698.00
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Jade Gas Holdings (ASX:JGH) +995%

Australia’s latest gas play is also the market’s biggest gainer this week. The near 10-bagger, formerly High Grade Metals, relisted on the ASX with a coalbed methane project in Mongolia.

While the TTM CBM project has a defined coal resource, its claim to fame is that it is surrounded by Elixir Energy’s Nomgon IX CBM project where drilling has intersected coals despite not having a defined coal resource.

TTM CBM also has gross best case prospective resource of 1Tcf of gas.

YPB Group (ASX:YPB) +100%

The product authentication company made gains this week after announcing it’s secured a commercial trial in the Southeast Asian market for MotifMicro1 (MM1) — its anti-counterfeit solution that can be read by a smartphone.

Its Malaysian client, Holographic Label Sdn. Bhd, has been in the security printing industry for over 20 years.

The agreement “provides a framework for HLSB to order MM1 from YPB, pursuant to purchase orders. HLSB placed its first order for US$4,000 of MM1”, YPB said.

Sunstone Metals (ASX:STM) +82%

Big porphyry discoveries are always welcome as Sunstone Metals demonstrated this week after making a monster intersection from a depth of just 11m at its El Palmar project in Ecuador.

Assaying of the intersection returned 480.85m at 0.41g/t gold and 0.15% copper (0.66g/t gold equivalent) from 11.3m, including 163.55m at 0.71g/t gold and 0.20% copper (1.05g/t gold equivalent) from 52.35m.

While porphyries typically have low grades, this is offset by their easy-mining large volumes.
 

ASX SMALL CAP LOSERS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks for October 1 – October 8 [intraday]:

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Code Company Price % 1 Week MktCap$
FYI FYI Resources Ltd 0.455 -45 $ 151,887,901.22
SE1 Sensera Ltd 0.024 -35 $ 14,903,871.95
BAS Bass Oil Ltd 0.002 -33 $ 8,601,013.50
TOM Tomizone Limited 0.002 -33 $ 850,401.35
NTL New Talisman Gold 0.002 -33 $ 6,414,450.73
TMK Tamaska Oil Gas Ltd 0.0075 -32 $ 6,580,000.00
XTE Xtek Limited 0.265 -27 $ 20,600,602.11
PCH Property Connect 0.0015 -25 $ 1,028,795.21
OAK Oakridge 0.0015 -25 $ 5,158,939.38
EPM Eclipse Metals 0.046 -23 $ 86,128,058.93
QXR Qx Resources Limited 0.014 -22 $ 9,329,072.49
HXL Hexima 0.385 -21 $ 48,333,419.94
BNO Bionomics Limited 0.135 -21 $ 141,343,544.16
KP2 Kore Potash PLC 0.021 -19 $ 13,120,071.80
MTC Metalstech Ltd 0.53 -19 $ 94,998,816.30
NVX Novonix Limited 5.39 -19 $ 2,538,286,440.12
KNB Koonenberrygold 0.135 -18 $ 10,296,771.52
CAG Caperangeltd 0.25 -18 $ 23,727,075.25
CHZ Chesser Resources 0.115 -18 $ 55,859,535.00
CZL Cons Zinc Ltd 0.023 -18 $ 7,232,587.51
GFN Gefen Int 0.72 -18 $ 43,856,776.80
EML EML Payments Ltd 3.21 -17 $ 1,380,616,612.50
CBE Cobre 0.12 -17 $ 14,992,241.25
PKO Peako Limited 0.024 -17 $ 7,402,898.42
TMG Trigg Mining Ltd. 0.087 -17 $ 10,263,504.06
DEV Devex Resources Ltd 0.29 -17 $ 90,811,020.27
SHG Singular Health 0.195 -17 $ 12,291,761.58
PF1 Pathfinder Resources 0.295 -17 $ 14,719,390.80
SCI Silver City Minerals 0.035 -17 $ 33,565,623.11
SBR Sabre Resources 0.005 -17 $ 8,446,568.25
A3D Aurora Labs Limited 0.125 -17 $ 19,876,541.10
EPX Ept Global Limited 0.125 -17 $ 15,103,654.80
CCE Carnegie Cln Energy 0.0025 -17 $ 29,805,147.42
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FYI Resources (ASX:FYI) -45%

Shares in FYI continued sinking this week after last week’s fall.

The company had reached a binding agreement with Alcoa that would see the mining giant take up more than 50% of the joint venture high purity alumina refining project.

Sensera (ASX:SE1) -35%

Investors punished the company after it revealed today that key customer NanoDX had decided to go with a different design that did not use Sensera’s MicroElectroMechanical Systems for its rapid COVID testing.

This comes after testing to interface MEMs structures into a nanowire-based technology solution found that it did not scale up to high-volume manufacturing.