This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Sparc Technologies. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Markets have come ripping back on this short post-Easter week. A long-awaited truce between the United States, Israel and Iran briefly gave traders permission to stop panic-buying oil and return markets to “risk on” again. News of the ceasefire dropped just moments before the ASX opened on Wednesday and money flowed back into the market like hot, flowing crude through the Str

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Cassius Mining, which doubled on its $1.32B damages claim against the Ghanaian government in a David vs Goliath mining dispute.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Killi Resources. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File The countdown is on. No, it’s not US President Trump’s countdown to power plant strikes in Iran and no, it’s unfortunately not the countdown to blastoff of SpaceX’s reported $100 billion IPO – a valuation likely to be in the trillions with a ‘T’. The countdown is on until perhaps the most resource-rich country in the world runs out of fuel. Not a great thing for a vast country,

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Immutep Limited. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File War wages on in the Middle East and unsurprisingly, the oil price chart looks positively parabolic. Brent oil is well and truly settling in for the long ride at the US$ 100-a-barrel mark, which will inevitably have serious inflationary implications globally. What started as a relatively stable week turned into absolute bloodshed on Thursday morning, following the Dow’s drop of m

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… 88 Energy. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Dire straits in the Strait of Hormuz. Turns out the skinny little waterway – the one funnelling 20-25 per cent of the world’s oil and a hefty chunk of LNG – really is the artery the global economy can’t live without. And when Iran starts lashing out at anything floating within drone range, the whole system goes berserk. Oil absolutely went full rocket mode as oil tankers and cargo shi

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… OD6 Metals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File It’s probably not a great thing that, despite war breaking out between the United States and Iran, it almost feels familiar at this stage. March has dawned and the long-simmering showdown finally boiled over last weekend. The US and Israel unleashed Operation Epic Fury on the Islamic Republic of Iran and, within the first day, had taken out the head of the snake, assassinating the op

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Hubify Limited. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Perhaps in a first for global markets, a blog post sent Wall Street into a tizzy at the start of the week. A rogue Substack post went viral, literally putting the doom in scrolling and hitting harder than any earnings miss. The culprits, Citrini Research, dropped a thought-provoking piece titled “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis.” Framed as a fictional macro memo from the futu

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Recharge Metals, which snapped up the Sunset Well project in the heart of WA’s Leonora district complete with 94,500-ounces of gold.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Great Dirt Resources. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Friday the 13th has delivered once again. The market is looking bruised and battered to end the week, with US tech and the NASDAQ slipping again overnight, leaving the ASX in a panic this morning. Apple slid 5 per cent and dragged six of the Magnificent Seven down with it, as delayed January jobs data, courtesy of the government shutdown hangover, also landed mid-week and w

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Solstice Minerals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File POP goes the… everything. It was bubble trouble galore this week, as all things tech, AI, crypto and precious metals took a proper hiding. The yanks are pulling their ripcords after the mega AI darlings turned in a nasty three-day losing streak thanks to some sobering revenue outlooks and eye-watering capex numbers. A reminder that even the most revolutionary technology needs

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Australian Strategic Materials. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Its not even Australia Day and 2026 has already delivered huge political shake-ups to an already tense global geopolitical environment. The big movements in world politics appear to have finally made it to Australia’s shores as the Coalition looks to finally split down the middle, perhaps this time for good. For the first time in nearly 40 years, Nationals’ leader

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Zelira Therapeutics Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File If market screens had a “glitch of the week” alert, it would’ve been flashing non-stop lately, with geopolitical and domestic political curveballs landing almost daily. Yet again, the last seven days seem to have delivered in spades. Fresh from his Venezuelan victory march, The Don was straight back to business, with renewed efforts to convince Greenlanders that they are alwa

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Hydrix Ltd, which locked in a $2.5 million deal to develop SynCardia’s next-gen fully-implantable artificial heart.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Charger Metals NL. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File New year, new Runners. Yet as we turn the page into 2026 with pledges of self-improvement, weight loss or something else forgotten by February, inevitably some things never seem to change. ASX Runners are one such staple and these days demand for those commodities that feed the new economy another. Copper, the red metal d’jour was one of the stars of the show in 2025 with supp

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runners of the Year are … Kaili Resources which turned hot air and a tight Chinese register into a 396-bagger meme-stock frenzy in just 48 hours of absolute chaos.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Bass Oil Limited. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Did somebody say Santa rally? As its head regulator, it seems US Fed chairman Jerome Powell has decided if he’s going out, he’s going out with a bang, locking in a rate cut on his way out the door to ensure a Christmas bull run for the masses. Interestingly, a distinctly divided Federal Reserve decided on an interest rate cut despite signalling that inflation remains. It also s

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Phoslock Environmental Technologies. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File It looked like Santa had shown up early, only to turn around and swipe all the presents this week. As silly season officially kicks off, the ASX-listed corporate suits have packed up for their holiday homes, leaving the market limping along on whatever momentum the algorithms can sustain. No major headlines sang out in markets this week, especially compared w

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… European Metals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears The bulls are back in town, who would have thought? Less than four weeks till Santa and it looks like the fat man is already stuffing the market’s stockings. A little over a week from every man and his dog predicting no rate cut till the new year, the market oracles have changed their minds yet again. One minute the United States treasury has rates on hold forever, the next minute a

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Alvo Minerals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File What a wild couple of days in markets. The red sea of despair on Friday had traders going glasses down and heading for the cricket to close out the week. Just as things were looking up on a resilient “AI-bubble”, on Thursday, US markets pulled the handbrake on any chance of a recovery overnight. After shooting up nearly 2 per cent at the open, the bears took the reins of the S&P 5

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Zoono Group. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Welp, we tried to hold on, but of course when the US markets sneeze, Australia catches the cold. Markets have fallen flat on their faces to end the week, down more than 1.5 per cent across the board. Despite the US government shutdown that dragged on for nearly a month and a half being over, the markets are cowering at the thought of a backlog of missing jobs and inflation data, tha