From next week, you’ll be free to go overseas but you just be might be missing out on some specialties at home.
Travel site Wotif has today unveiled some of Australia’s hidden secrets, announcing the winners of the people’s choice for its Uniquely Aussie Awards.
The public have voted Miss Jaffles in Cronulla to have the Best Jaffles, the Beechwood Hotel on the New South Wales North Coast won the best country pub award, while Bridgewater Bakehouse in Victoria won the Best vanilla slice.
But the most intriguing of all, Chicken Chef in Blair Athol South Australia won the best hot chips award.
Image: Chicken Chef/Wotif
On markets, the ASX 200 retreated for the first time this week – down 0.19% as at 11.45am EST.
Large stocks outperformed the small end of town, with the microcap Emerging Companies index around 0.8% lower.
That followed a quieter session on Wall Street overnight.
Amid some mild risk-off sentiment, the Aussie dollar has dipped back below US75c while Bitcoin is still trading below $US60,000 after yesterday’s dip.
ASX investors are uncovering a lot about their companies this week as quarterlies season rolls on, and those updates acted as a catalyst for many stocks to find themselves amongst the top winners (or losers) today.
ASX SMALL CAP WINNERS
Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks for Thursday October 28 [intraday]:
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Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-sensitive announcements
Code Name Price % Change Volume IVX Invion Ltd 0.031 138 210126393 ALT Analytica Limited 0.002 100 775055 ANL Amani Gold Ltd 0.003 50 13265525 NPM Newpeak Metals 0.0015 50 3000000 SPN Sparc Tech Ltd 1.285 25 1063854 CAD Caeneus Minerals 0.017 21 39207042 DCX Discovex Res Ltd 0.006 20 200000 AFW Applyflow Limited 0.007 17 57549723 GGX Gas2Grid Limited 0.0035 17 544215 GL1 Globallith 0.485 15 1452628 AFA ASF Group Limited 0.05 14 10000 ECT Env Clean Tech Ltd. 0.018 13 5426098 BBT Bluebet Holdings Ltd 1.935 12 647920 CNR Cannon Resources 0.485 11 617619 TMK Tamaska Oil Gas Ltd 0.01 11 5000000 AND Ansarada Group Ltd 2.055 11 205639 XF1 Xref Limited 0.6875 11 428792 DEL Delorean Corporation 0.21 11 1497070 CLE Cyclone Metals 0.0055 10 300000 RMX Red Mount Min Ltd 0.011 10 947363 CBY Canterbury Resources 0.115 10 5000 TON Triton Min Ltd 0.035 9 689000 LKE Lake Resources 0.94 9 8050951
The company which rose the most off the back of its quarterly was betting stock BlueBet (ASX:BBT). This company reported record turnover of $125.9 million for the quarter (up 67.4% up from 12 months ago) via 39,195 active customers,
But topping the charts, having more than doubled this morning, was cancer fighting biotech Invion (ASX:IVX).
It reported positive results from proof of concept studies depicting a complete regression of breast cancer in test subjects.
HR tech stock Applyflow (ASX:AFW) signed Hudson Global Resources signed on to roll out its Applypay service – a finance solution for recruiter invoices.
Topping the list of resources stocks was Caeneus (ASX:CAD) which rose despite telling shareholders results from its drilling program at the Roberts Hill in WA’s Pilbara region would be delayed by a few weeks due to high industry activity levels which geologists have struggled to keep pace with.
ASX SMALL CAP LOSERS
Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks for Thursday October 28 [intraday]:
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Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-sensitive announcements
Code Name Price % Change Volume MMM Marley Spoon 1.07 -29.1% 4,698,859 MLS Metals Australia 0.0015 -25.0% 325,129 NPM Newpeak Metals 0.0015 -25.0% 2,806,828 TPS Threat Protect Ltd 0.004 -20.0% 177,595 ANL Amani Gold Ltd 0.0025 -16.7% 36,916,077 CCE Carnegie Cln Energy 0.0025 -16.7% 2,289,382 BID Bill Identity Ltd 0.28 -16.4% 686,362 AEI Aeris Environmental 0.12 -14.3% 779,596 VUL Vulcan Energy 13.01 -13.2% 4,526,139 BTR Brightstar Resources 0.049 -12.5% 959,539 PNM Pacific Nickel Mines 0.11 -12.0% 584,733 AWJ Auric Mining 0.12 -11.1% 249,289 CGB Cann Global Limited 0.004 -11.1% 18,584,488 ATP Atlas Pearls Ltd 0.025 -10.7% 552,708 CZL Cons Zinc Ltd 0.042 -10.6% 4,967,575 ECS ECS Botanics Holding 0.035 -10.3% 19,123,590 SKY SKY Metals Ltd 0.088 -10.2% 242,298 CLE Cyclone Metals 0.0045 -10.0% 3,360,000 ROO Roots Sustainable 0.009 -10.0% 72,837 EMU EMU NL 0.027 -10.0% 619,351 OEC Orbital Corp Limited 0.6 -10.0% 13,679 AKP Audio Pixels Ltd 24 -9.0% 9,594
Companies dropping off the back of their quarterlies included Damstra (ASX:DTC), AVA Risk Group (ASX:AVA) and PointsBet (ASX:PBH).
Elsewhere, Prominence Energy (ASX:PRM) dropped after its latest drilling results.
It explicitly said that commercial volumes of hydrocarbons had not been found.
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