ASX falls but this uranium player climbed 17.7%


(MENAFN- ProactiveInvestors) Australian stocks have dropped after U.S. stocks tanked overnight on a sharp increase in the U.S. dollar. The ASX200 fell 48.1 points or 0.8% to 5725.3.

Major miners were amongst the biggest losers with BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) falling 1.9% to $29.28 while Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) is down 2.1% to $2.35.

Newcrest (ASX:NCM) dropped 0.3% to $14.67 Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) down 1.9% to $57.22


Market Action here…

Peninsula Energy (ASX:PEN)
climbed 17.7% to $0.02 with more than 27.5 million shares traded.

The company has started the application process to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE-MKT) giving it access to the world’s largest capital market and institutional fund managers.

With its Lance In-Situ Recovery Projects in Wyoming expected to start uranium production later this year this should drive the re-rating of the company’s shares.

The company will maintain its Australian Securities Exchange listing.

Average daily turnover of uranium peer companies dual listed on a U.S. stock exchange consistently exceed the liquidity levels achieved on their non-U.S. exchange by factor of 4 to 7 times.

In addition Comparable In-Situ Recovery (ISR) companies with a U.S. listing outperform companies that do not have a U.S. listing by a factor of 2 to 3 times enterprise value per pound of measured and indicated resource.

Red Mountain Mining (ASX:RMX) jumped 33.3% to $0.004 with 3.6 million shares traded while Grand Gulf Energy (ASX:GGE) is up 20% to $0.006.


Blue Chip Stocks


Oil and Gas

Oil Search (ASX:OSH) down 2.7% to $7.44
Santos (ASX:STO) down 1.2% to $8.25
Woodside Petroleum (ASX:WPL) down 0.0% to $36.65

Big 4 banks

ANZ Bank (ASX:ANZ) down 0.4% to $32.57
Commonwealth Bank (ASX:CBA) down 0.7% to $84.05
National Australia Bank (ASX:NAB) down 1.2% to $33.58
Westpac (ASX:WBC) down 1.3% to $33.20


Other banks financials and industrials


AMP (ASX:AMP) down 1.0% to $6.60
Bank of Queensland (ASX:BOQ) down 0.7% to $13.16
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (ASX:BEN) down 0.2% to $12.28
Macquarie Group (ASX:MQG) down 0.6% to $80.15
Suncorp (ASX:SUN) up 0.1% to $13.42
Telstra (ASX:TLS) down 1.3% to $6.21


Retailers

JB Hi-FI (ASX:JBH) down 0.1% to $21.39
Wesfarmers (ASX:WES) down 1.6% to $43.40
Woolworths (ASX:WOW) down 2.1% to $27.94

 

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