Articles On Volt Resources (ASX:VRC)

The ASX 200 just closed 0.92 per cent up at 7,380 points  —  a new record high. The ASX Emerging Companies Index however fell 1.66 per cent, closing at 2,180. The best sector on the ASX was health which gained over 2 per cent while consumer...

The ASX ended the week on a high note, finishing up 0.13 per cent with most sectors in positive territory. The index touched a record high of 7,334 today but failed to keep the momentum and eventually closed at 7,312. For the week, the inde...

Gold is re-starting its bull rally as two major obstacles — higher US Treasury yields and Bitcoin — fizzle. “Strong headwinds from parabolic Bitcoin and rising bond yields appear to have run their course,” Bloomberg Intelligence senior comm...

The company has been granted a trading halt until the start of trading on Wednesday, June 16, or when an announcement is released to the market.

Summary The ASX 200 hit a new all-time high of 7300.5 in intraday trade on Friday, breaching Thursday’s intraday high of 7,281.8. The index closed higher for the third session, adding 35.30 points or 0.49% at 7,295.40. Bitcoin, Ether...

Gold’s rally ran out of puff this week, with the precious metal dropping about 2% below ~$1US1,870/oz at Thursday close. Kitco’s Jim Wyckoff calls it “routine profit taking”. “Importantly, the price uptrend in gold on the daily chart remain...

The acquisition is anticipated to be completed next week and will instantly transform the company into one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers.

Investors – where to put your money when everything looks so bloody good? Iron ore touched $200/t once again to close out a volatile month in positive territory. Gold bounced back to record its biggest month-on-month gain since July last ye...

Last month, the ASX finally reached its pre-pandemic high, went in circles for a couple of weeks then reached it again. What else happened in May? Well, the phase “To the moon” obtained its traditional meaning once more. While the phase has...

The price difference between electric vehicles and their conventional petrol/diesel peers – a key obstacle to widespread EV adoption – is closing at an accelerated rate. Affordability = more EVs on the roads = more demand for battery metals...

The Full 180 is a fortnightly look at ASX capital raisings. We are entering our fourth week (or so) of a quiet/consolidation period for capital raisings. We are chugging along at a pace of four to six share placements per day, with volumes...

Over the past two months the gold price has turned a corner, up ~12.7% to a high of $US1898/oz. That’s a four month high, erasing almost all of 2021’s losses. The share prices of local gold stocks have responded in kind. Over the past month...

The ASX had a mixed day but closed narrowly in the green with a 0.03 per cent gain to 7,095 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index gained 0.25 per cent to 2,164 points. While more sectors were down rather than up, it was offset by te...

The facility will go towards the funding of the acquisition of a 70% interest in the Zavalievsky group of companies and related expenses, as well as working capital.

Large and small caps had diverging fates on the ASX today with the former closing 0.32 per cent down from yesterday at 7,093 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 1.21 per cent to close at 2,159. The various ASX sectors were al...

The proposed acquisition of a controlling 70% interest in the ZG Group will transform the company from a graphite explorer and developer into one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers.

Are large Bitcoin investors moving back into precious metals? In a note to clients, JPMorgan said large institutional investors are dumping bitcoin in favour of gold, reversing a trend that’s played out over the last two quarters. “The bitc...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

This week’s Hot Money is more or less brought to you by the good folks at Mindax (ASX:MDX), with a nice cameo from Australia’s only listed football team. Each week, Stockhead recaps ASX stocks that are “running hot” as deduced by the Relati...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

The recovery in the gold price from its early March lows — ~$1,670s to over $1,825 currently — was mostly driven by the decline in real interest rates and, more recently a poor US jobs report and increasing inflation. US core inflation in A...

14 May 2021 - A snapshot of the companies making headlines for the hour.

The acquisition of a controlling 70% interest in the ZG Group will immediately transform the company from a graphite explorer and developer into one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers.

14 May 2021 - Mineral explorer and producer Volt Resources (ASX:VRC) is set to acquire a 70 per cent stake in the Ukraine-based Zavalievsky group of companies (ZG Group), following…

Wall Street climbs on better US jobs market All major indices in the US rebounded on Thursday, after US jobless claims fell by 34,000 to a 14-month low of 473,000 in the past week, beating estimates. Dow Jones climbed 1.29%, S&P 500 ros...

Summary The S&P/ASX 200 Index gains 70 points to reclaim 7100-mark on Thursday. Technology services company Appen was top performer, followed by Kogan.com, St Barbara, Nearmap and Gold Road Resources among others. Seven of 11 sect...

The benchmark index ASX 200 extended loss by the close, led by sharp selling in technology stocks. The tech stocks dropped, taking weak cues from NASDAQ which fell nearly 2% in the overnight trade. The ASX 200 was trailing by 44 points or...

Graphite and gold explorer and developer Volt Resources (ASX:VRC) Limited has announced its acquisition of 70% of the Zavalievsky group of companies is on track after it entered a binding agreement with the group just last week. The deal wi...

Completing the ZG Group acquisition will position Volt well ahead of most peer graphite companies by transforming it into a producer without the usual greenfield financing and development risk.

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium. With some 85 per cent of the world’s cobalt originating from jurisdictions with higher levels of co...

The capital raisings boom on the ASX is continuing in 2021 with nearly $10 billion raised in the first four months of the year. Across 325 deals, ASX companies have raised $9.878 billion in capital amidst IPOs, placements and rights issues....

“When you stop growing you start dying,” is a saying the ASX’s largest gold miners have apparently taken to heart. While hopefully remaining cognisant of the expensive, value-destroying deals which occurred when gold last peaked in the 2010...

The acquisition will immediately transform Volt into one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers, positioning the company well ahead of most of its peer graphite companies

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

Completion of the acquisition will position Volt to become a graphite producer without the usual greenfield financing and development risk.

Europe’s electric vehicle boom continues apace with hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery EVs taking a combined 32.2% market share in the March quarter. The global EV trailblazer saw first quarter new battery electric vehicle (BEVs) registra...

Today was a more muted trading day with much of Australia on a public holiday but the ASX closed slightly down. The ASX 200 closed at 7,046, 0.21 per cent lower than Monday. Small caps however finished in the green with the ASX Emerging Com...

Small caps have bounced back from a slow start to finish in the green – barely. The Small Ordinaries index finished Friday up 2.6 points, or 0.08 per cent, to 3,318.8, slightly underperforming the All Ordinaries which rose 0.12 per cent. Th...

The gold price traditionally thrives on geopolitical drama. Heightened tensions in eastern Ukraine, the recent incident at an Iranian nuclear site, and news of an unofficial US delegation visiting Taiwan are recent reminders that 2021 will...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

Source: Yuriy K, Shutterstock Summary Volt Resources’ share price is trading up by 26.67% to A$0.019 with a heavy volume of around 85 million shares. Suvo Strategic Minerals’ share price has been trending up since the beginning of the...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

Gold continues to trend upwards on the back of US dollar’s ongoing weakness and concerns about inflation, so it’s unsurprising that the majority of gold plays on our watchlist have marked gains this week. The previous metal is currently tra...

Active restocking by battery manufacturers has sent prices of battery-grade lithium chemicals soaring thanks to tight supplies. Fastmarkets noted that domestic Chinese lithium hydroxide prices climbed 4.1 per cent in a week to between 73,00...

The gold price may have languished slightly in 2021, but the number of gold IPOs certainly has not. Here’s what the newest ASX gold explorers are doing, where they are doing it, and why investors should care.   KINCORA COPPER (ASX:KCC) The...

Wall Street subdued, as bank stocks feel the heat Dow Jones rose slightly by 0.3%, while S&P 500 and NASDAQ fell by 0.09% and 0.6% respectively. Banks stocks were the main casualties, as Nomura and Credit Suisse both said they were faci...

By 2030, UBS predicts we’ll need a lot of manganese, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, nickel and copper if car makers are to hit some very ambitious production targets. They estimate EV penetration increasing from 4 per cent currently to 20 pe...