Carbine Resources - CRB

On Stockhead today, has the new age of coal dawned, the CSIRO found a fungus that can find gold, and the tech stocks that aren't listening to talk of a bubble. But first, here’s what you need to know about the week ahead. The week ahead in data It's a really slow trickle for data this week in Australia. Crickets over Monday and Tuesday, before the Housing Industry Association releases monthly home sales figures. On Thursday the Australian Bureau of Statistics has monthly and yearly data on building permits, followed by private sector credit and expenditure figures on Friday. News from the US will have a quiet start to the week as well, with Memorial Day on Monday. Both the ASX 200 and the ASX small ords closed down on Friday. Company news No shares out of escrow today, but there are plenty being released this week -- view our summary here. The following companies are due out of a trading halt or voluntary suspension early this week: Today: Carbine Resources (ASX CRB) – response to a price query Bojun Agriculture (ASX:BAH) – management changes Vector Resources (ASX:VEC) – capital raising Micro-X (ASX:MX1) – administrative matters Tuesday: Immuron (ASX:IMC) - capital raising Estrella Resources (ASX:ESR) - exploration update Auroch Minerals (ASX:AOU) - acquisition Commodities Gold: $US1,284.65 ($1,853.03) +0.12% Silver: $US14.56 -0.17% Oil (Brent): $US68.69 +1.37% Oil (WTI): $US58.63 +1.24% Coal: $US82.10 -0.48% Iron ore 62pc fe: $US98.14 +0.85% AUD/USD: $US0.6933 Want this headstart in your inbox every morning at 8am? Go on. Subscribe here. It’s free What got you talking last week You were a chatty bunch last week. How about: Game of Thrones, Base metals Small tech companies Diamonds, and Robot bricklayers. All these and more had people jumping in on the Stockhead Facebook chat forum. These were the five most-discussed stocks on trading gossip forum HotCopper at close on Friday: https://twitter.com/HotCopper/status/1131804064696586241 Subscribe to our daily newsletter Join our small cap Facebook group Follow us on Facebook or Twitter Friday's winners LBT Innovations (ASX:LBT) had a big week, up 129 per cent to 16c, thanks to its half-owned joint venture Clever Culture Systems receiving FDA clearance for an instrument that can process 200 culture plates an hour and see which are growing bacteria. It was the last hurdle in order to start selling in the US. CCP Technologies (ASX:CT1) was next best, up 70 per cent to 2c. It followed a sale announcement (shares up 60 per cent) with news that one of their low-temperature devices has passed Monash University testing (shares up 54 per cent). That suggests its disastrous foray into cryptocurrency last year and shedding of executives has been forgiven. Underwater tech company UUV Aquabotix (ASX: UUV) rose 57 per cent this week to 1.2c after signing another deal with the US military. The defence force with the world's largest military budget has taken a liking to UUV's SwarmDivers -- miniature vehicles which can be deployed in underwater diving operations. The company said it's been awarded a contract of around $150,000, which marks the US military's fourth SwarmDiver order since April 2018. Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks for May 20-24: Swipe or scroll to reveal full table. Click headings to sort Friday's losers On the other end of the spectrum, fintech software platform Intiger Group (ASX: IAM) got smashed after a deal with Commonwealth Bank fell through. The company said its financial planning software met all of the standards and metrics agreed to between the two parties, however it was "unable to negotiate an ongoing commercial agreement". Shares in Intiger fell 71 per cent to 0.2 cents. Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks for May 20-24: Swipe or scroll to reveal full table. Click headings to sort That’s all you need to know. As Frank Spencer's mum used to say about Mondays... "It's Monday!"