The week aheadThis week’s key economic data is July’s...

The week ahead

This week’s key economic data is July’s unemployment rate, due out at 11.30am on Thursday. Additionally NAB and Westpac will be releasing monthly business and consumer confidence surveys on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.

The following companies are in trading halts and are expected to exit in the next couple of trading days:

Monday:

Orion Minerals (ASX:ORN) – capital raising
Malachite Resources (ASX:MAR) – capital raising
XTEK (ASX:XTE) – capital raising
Genex Power (ASX:GNX) – capital raising
Xanadu Mines (ASX:XAM) – capital raising
Farm Pride Foods (ASX:FRM) – influenza outbreak response
Caeneus Minerals (ASX:CAD) – license applications

Tuesday:
SECOS Group (ASX:SES) – supply agreement
Regeneus (ASX:RGS) – licensing agreement
Engage:BDR (ASX:EN1) – capital raising
New Zealand Coastal Seafoods (ASX:NZS) – supply agreement
PainChek (ASXCK) – capital raising
Sheffield Resources (ASX:SFX) – capital raising & offtake agreements
Harris Technology Group (ASX:HT8) – capital raising
Alchemy Resources (ASX:ALY) – capital raising
AdAlta (ASX:1AD) – capital raising
Salt Lake Potash (ASX:SO4)– capital raising

Markets

Gold: $US2,034.70 ($2,841.59) (-1.65%)

Silver: $US28.34 ($39.58) (-4.49%)

Oil (WTI): $US41.22 (-1.74%)

Oil (Brent): $US45.09 (-1.53)

Coal: $US56.27 (+2.16%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US118.07 (-0.69%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7160 (+0.04%)

Bitcoin: $US11,686.20 (-0.83%)