ASX falls for fifth straight session but this gold producer jumped 13%


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Australian stocks have been pulled down by Energy and healthcare stocks with the ASX200 falling 32.2 points or 0.6% to 5299.2.

This comes after crude prices dropped again with the West Texas Intermediate crude oil for February delivery falling 4.6% to settle at US$46.25 a barrel yesterday.
 
Oil and gas stocks lost ground with Oil Search (ASX:OSH) down 1.0% to $7.14 Santos (ASX:STO) dipping 0.1% to $7.49 and Woodside Petroleum (ASX:WPL) falling 2.6% to $34.16


Market action here…


Silver Lake Resources (ASX:SLR) is up 13% to $0.305.

In December the company raised $10 million for working capital by entering into a secured Gold Prepay Facility with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX:CBA).

Under the Facility Silver Lake will deliver a total of 7056.31 ounces of gold to CBA between January 2015 and July 2016 at 392.02 ounces per month.

The Facility is secured by way of mining mortgages over the Daisy Milano and Randalls mill tenements and a general security interest over all assets of Silver Lake and its wholly owned subsidiary Silver Lake (Integra) Pty Ltd.

Cott Oil and Gas (ASX:CMT) rose 15.4% to $0.06 Latin Resources (ASX:LRS) gained 12% to $0.028 and Manas Resources (ASX:MSR) jumped 30.8% to $0.017.

New Talisman Gold Mines (ASX:NTL) gained 10% to $0.011 Phoenix Copper (ASX:PNX) rose 10% to $0.033 and Tiaro Coal (ASX:TCM) is up 60% to $0.008.


Other Blue Chip stocks


Major miners
 
BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) up 0.6% to $27.05
Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) up 1.8% to $2.31
Newcrest (ASX:NCM) up 6.8% to $12.97
Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) down 0.5% to $53.89


Big 4 banks

ANZ Bank (ASX:ANZ) down 0.8% to $31.26
Commonwealth Bank (ASX:CBA) up 0.1% to $83.57
National Australia Bank (ASX:NAB) down 0.4% to $33.37
Westpac (ASX:WBC) down 0.1% to $32.76


Other banks financials and industrials

AMP (ASX:AMP) down 1.5% to $5.30
Bank of Queensland (ASX:BOQ) down 0.8% to $11.71
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (ASX:BEN) down 0.9% to $12.62
Macquarie Group (ASX:MQG) down 1.0% to $55.29
Suncorp (ASX:SUN) down 0.9% to $13.82
Telstra (ASX:TLS) up 0.3% to $6.22


Retailers

JB Hi-FI (ASX:JBH) down 1.2% to $16.15
Wesfarmers (ASX:WES) up 0.1% to $42.62
Woolworths (ASX:WOW) up 1.5% to $30.69



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