31-07-2025
Top 10 at 11: ASX dives as Fed gives hawkish vibes
Morning, and welcome to Stockhead's Top 10 (at 11… ish), highlighting the movers and shakers on the ASX in early-doors trading.
With the market opening at 10am sharp eastern time, the data is taken at 10.15am in the east, once trading kicks off in earnest.
In brief, this is what the market has been up to this morning.
Fed refuses to budge on interest rates
The ASX is following US indices lower after the US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell once again signalled the central bank was not ready to cut US interest rates. Well, not just yet anyway.
The ASX fell 0.45% in the first hour, down on 8 of 11 sectors with only info tech (+0.5%) showing any real signs of life this morning.
With the US labour market remaining 'solid' by Powell's assessment and a September cut still in doubt, gold shed 0.8% overnight to US$3352.80 an ounce, then slid even further in trade today to US$3287.21 an ounce.
Oil continued to rise, ticking up another 1% to US$73.24 a barrel of Brent. Iron ore has also gained marginally, up just 0.1% to hover just beneath the US$100 tonne mark at US$99.07.
WINNERS
Code Name Last % Change Volume Market Cap
ASR Asra Minerals Ltd 0.002 100% 1157516 $4,000,198
WEL Winchester Energy 0.002 100% 849999 $1,363,019
TOU Tlou Energy Ltd 0.028 56% 4672 $23,374,518
DTM Dart Mining NL 0.003 50% 183333 $2,396,111
RAN Range International 0.0025 25% 2380188 $1,878,581
AON Apollo Minerals Ltd 0.008 23% 167672 $6,034,970
AAU Antilles Gold Ltd 0.006 20% 606666 $11,895,340
FBR FBR Ltd 0.006 20% 794501 $28,447,261
AS2 Askari Metals Limited 0.013 18% 153000 $4,445,878
RKB Rokeby Resources Ltd 0.013 18% 958797 $17,983,473
In the news...
Winchester Energy (ASX:WEL) has been reinstated to the ASX after clearing a regulatory hurdle by appointing two more non-executive directors and filling out the required three-person roster.
WEL is welcoming Jason Peterson, founder of CPS Capital Group, and David Wheeler, director and partner at boutique corporate advisory firm Pathways Corporate, to the board. The company is now seeking advice over a general meeting requirement.
Askari Metals (ASX:AS2) is preparing for a systematic exploration program targeting high-grade, shallow gold mineralisation across two major gold corridors at its Nejo gold and copper project.
AS2 will explore 10km of the Guliso Trend and 9km of the Guji-Gudeya Trend, home to the Soyoma, Dina, Chago, Chago South, Guji, Komto 1 and Komto 2 gold targets.
Rokeby Resources (ASX:RKB) had a solid quarter of exploration and corporate growth, welcoming a $380k investment from new major shareholder Tony Rovira alongside a $1.1m capital raise.
The money is funding a maiden drilling campaign just starting at the Hurricane gold project, which has produced bonanza grade rock chips of up to 69.5 g/t gold.
LAGGARDS
Code Name Last % Change Volume Market Cap
MHK Metalhawk. 0.2 -46% 1426123 $45,655,248
XPN Xpon Technologies 0.008 -27% 5898642 $4,556,785
MEM Memphasys Ltd 0.003 -25% 5012105 $7,934,392
3DP Pointerra Limited 0.047 -18% 3680958 $45,889,377
BNL Blue Star Helium Ltd 0.005 -17% 33005320 $16,169,312
ECT Env Clean Tech Ltd. 0.0025 -17% 193524 $12,046,306
SER Strategic Energy 0.006 -14% 500000 $4,697,233
BMG BMG Resources Ltd 0.007 -13% 200000 $6,755,177
CHM Chimeric Therapeutic 0.0035 -13% 3475000 $12,996,494
