The OZ Minerals Limited (ASX: OZL) share price hit a post-GFC high today. This came after the ASX copper producer announced the sale of its holdings in two joint ventures (JVs) that could ultimately bring in more than $20 million in cash.

The OZ Minerals share price hit an intraday high of $27.23 in early afternoon trading today. That’s 1.22% up on its previous closing price.

It is also the highest price that OZ Minerals has traded for since mid-2008 as the global financial crisis was unfolding.

OZ Minerals told the ASX today that it has struck a $6.6 million deal to sell its 80% stake in the Jericho copper-gold system and its 70% holding in the larger Eloise copper project near Cloncurry in northwest Queensland.

The buyer is Demetallica, which is a subsidiary of OZ Minerals’ junior JV partner Minotaur Exploration Ltd (ASX: MEP).

Proceeds from the asset sales

The $6.6 million consideration is made up of a $475,000 non-refundable deposit and a $6.13 million payment. The second larger payment is due when Minotaur floats Demetallica via an initial public offering (IPO).

But these aren’t the only payments OZ Minerals could receive. It is also entitled to up to US$8.82 million (AU$12.3 million) from the copper mined at both projects.

The amount is calculated at the rate of US4 cents a pound on the ore that forms part of the measured and indicated resources or tonnes actually mined, exceeding 200,000 tonnes and capped at 300,000 tonnes.

OZ Minerals gets a further $2.75 million upon the publication or completion of a positive pre-feasibility study for Eloise and/or Jericho, or the commencement of mining within those areas.

OZ Minerals explains divestment rational

The projects weren’t of sufficient scale to keep OZ Minerals interested. This deal gives Demetallica options to develop and fund the projects, as well as look for other partners.

OZ Minerals chief executive, Andrew Cole said:

The resource at Jericho did not meet our requirements to continue so we have agreed for our partner’s subsidiary, Demetallica, to gain 100% ownership of the project.

Our exploration strategy is to partner with junior explorers who bring new ideas and regional expertise in a way that allows us to test theories and quickly determine the attractiveness of a project.

This is a good example of how our partnering approach allows us to continually turn over our portfolio of exploration projects as we search for our next material discovery. We look forward to continuing to work in partnership with MEP under our various joint ventures.

Demetallica’s asset portfolio ahead of IPO

The Jericho copper-gold system reported a maiden mineral resource estimate of 9.1Mt @ 1.4% copper (Cu) and 0.3g/t gold (Au).

Demetallica has also struck a deal with Sandfire Resources Ltd (ASX: SFR) to gain full control of Sandfire’s regional tenements and the Altia polymetallic deposit near Cloncurry.

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Shares in Azure Minerals Limited (ASX: AZS) are in the green today and are now trading 7% higher at 36.5 cents apiece.

Azure’s share price jumped from the open and rallied as much as 10% to 41 cents before smoothing off to its current intraday low.

Investors responded positively to a company announcement out of Azure’s camp today which updated the market on the Andover Project. Here are the details.

What did Azure announce?

The company advised that it has intersected ”substantial massive nickel and copper sulphide mineralisation” on a site that sits as part of the Andover Project.

It has also discovered a new zone of nickel and copper sulphide mineralisation at the Skyline prospect, also located at the site in WA.

Results were obtained as a part of Azure’s ongoing drilling program at the site. To date, 133 diamond drill holes have been completed at the site for a total of 58,808 metres across various prospects.

For instance, there have been 102 holes drilled at VC-07 East, 20 holes at VC-07 West, 8 holes at VC-23 and 3 holes at Skyline

Azure notes that 2 diamond drill rigs are currently drilling on the VC-07 West prospect while a third rig, having completed drilling the three holes at Skyline, is now drilling on an anomaly at the VC-18 East EM prospect.

The initial drilling program at Skyline intersected intervals of nickel and copper sulphide mineralisation at the modelled depths. The holes have been sampled and assays are awaited.

These mineralised intervals coincide with the electromagnetic (EM) conductors identified by surface EM surveys. Azure reckons this confirms that the “presence of EM conductance is a very strong indicator for the presence of nickel and copper sulphide mineralisation in the Andover intrusive complex”.

Meanwhile, the VC-07 west site has shown “significant intersections of nickel and copper sulphide mineralisation with portable XRF confirming massive sulphide zones contain high grades of nickel and copper”.

Follow-up drilling for both Skyline and VC-23 is expected to be carried out in the first quarter of 2022, per the release.

Management commentary

Commenting on the announcement, Azure Minerals Managing Director, Tony Rovira said:

We’re very pleased that our regional exploration drilling has got off to such a great start with a new Ni-Cu sulphide discovery made at the Skyline prospect. The first three holes all intersected Ni-Cu sulphide mineralisation coinciding with EM conductors, confirming that on the Andover Project, electrical conductance continues to be associated with sulphide mineralisation.

Rovira continued:

Meanwhile our drilling continues to intersect substantial Ni-Cu sulphide mineralisation within the VC-07 mineralised corridor, with the latest massive sulphide intersections at VC-07 West also coinciding with electromagnetic conductors. With multiple mineralised drill hits and extensions of the EM conductors that have yet to be drilled, VC-07 West looks promising for hosting significant Ni-Cu sulphide mineralisation

Today’s gains are a welcomed reversal for Azure shareholders who’ve watched the share price slide more than 53% in the last 12 months.

This year to date things aren’t faring much better, with shares falling another 30% since January 1.

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In afternoon trade, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is fighting hard to continue its winning streak but is falling just a touch short. At the time of writing, the benchmark index is down slightly to 7,401.7 points.

Four ASX shares that are falling more than most today are listed below. Here’s why they are dropping:

Alcidion Group Ltd (ASX: ALC)

The Alcidion share price is down 14% to 27.5 cents. This follows the completion of the institutional component of the healthcare technology company’s capital raising. Alcidion raised a total of $43.4 million at a 21.9% discount of 25 cents per new share. These funds are being used to acquire UK healthcare technology company Silverlink PCS Software.

Magellan Financial Group Ltd (ASX: MFG)

The Magellan share price is down a further 4.5% to $28.98. This fund manager’s shares have been sold off this week following the surprise exit of its Chief Executive Officer, Dr Brett Cairns. Magellan advised that Dr Cairns is leaving for personal reasons. The company has promoted its Chief Financial Officer, Ms Kirsten Morton, to the top job on an interim basis.

Redbubble Ltd (ASX: RBL)

The Redbubble share price has sunk 9% to $3.01. This ecommerce company’s shares have been sold off this week after being dumped out of the ASX 200 at the quarterly rebalance. In other news, this morning UBS initiated coverage on this ecommerce company’s shares with a neutral rating and $3.45 price target.

Seven West Media Ltd (ASX: SWM)

The Seven West Media share price is down 3% to 62 cents. This is despite the media company’s takeover of Prime Media Group (ASX: PRT) getting a boost today. This morning the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that it will not oppose the sale of Prime’s business and assets to Seven. Shareholders will be voting on the transaction later this month.

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In afternoon trade, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is fighting hard to continue its winning run. At the time of writing, the benchmark index is up slightly to 7,411.8 points.

Four ASX shares that are climbing more than most today are listed below. Here’s why they are storming higher:

Hipages Group Holdings Ltd (ASX: HPG)

The Hipages share price is up 3% to $3.74. Investors have been buying the online tradie marketplace provider’s shares after it announced the acquisition of Builderscrack for A$11.8 million. It is New Zealand’s leading online tradie marketplace with 4,000 active tradies and 200,000 registered homeowners across the NZ$26 billion total addressable market.

IGO Ltd (ASX: IGO)

The IGO share price is up 3% to $10.50. This appears to have been driven by a bullish broker note out of Citi. According to the note, the broker has upgraded IGO’s shares to a buy rating from neutral with a price target of $12.40. Citi likes IGO due to its exposure to lithium through its Greenbushes and Kwinana operations in Western Australia.

Talga Group Ltd (ASX: TLG)

The Talga share price is up 13% to $1.56 after announcing drilling results from its wholly-owned Vittangi Graphite Project in Sweden. According to the release, Talga achieved spectacular graphite results from six new drill holes of the 56-hole program completed earlier this year.

Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd (ASX: VUL)

The Vulcan share price is up 16% to $11.31. Investors have been buying this lithium developer’s shares after it signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with the world’s largest automaker, Volkswagen Group. From 2026, Volkswagen will purchase a minimum of 34,000 tonnes and a maximum of 42,000 tonnes of battery grade lithium hydroxide over a five-year term.

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As you probably know by now, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) had a wild, woolly and not too wholesome month of November. The ASX 200 ended up going backwards by around 0.92% over the month just gone, falling from 7,232.7 points at the start of November to 7,256 pints by the end. But how did the Coles Group Ltd (ASX: COL) share price fare?

Coles is, after all, one of the ASX 200’s largest blue chip consumer staples shares (a sector with a reputation for defensiveness and stability). Earlier this week, my Fool colleague Brooke covered Coles’ arch-rival Woolworths Group Ltd (ASX: WOW), and its rather spectacular eleventh month of 2021. Woolworths shares ended up giving investors a hefty 7.2% return. That was despite a lack of tangible news or developments out of the company during the month.

So how did Coles measure up?

Well, Coles started November at a share price of $17.14. On Tuesday 30 November, Coles shares closed at $18.02 each. That’s a gain of 5.13%. Not quite as impressive as Woolies. But still a meaningful and no-doubt pleasing outperformance of the ASX 200.

So what went right for Coles over the month?

Coles share price shows the ASX 200 how it’s done

Well, the first thing to note is that Coles held its annual general meeting last month, back on 10 November. As we covered at the time, this AGM saw Coles’ management chart its path forward from FY2021, with CEO Steven Cain telling investors that “in many ways, your company is exiting the pandemic a better business”.

Coles also conformed that its ‘Smarter Selling’ cost-cutting program had now netted more than $550 million in savings. Additionally, Cain said that he was “optimistic on the outlook for the Christmas period as Australians adjust to life after lockdown and are once again able to enjoy time with family and friends”.

At the time, this AGM received a lukewarm reception, with the Coles share price dipping in the immediate aftermath. But investors seemed to give it a second look afterwards, seeing as Coles shares were up more than 1.6% by the following week.

Another factor that may have had a hand in Coles’ impressive November was some love from ASX brokers. As my Fool colleague James covered last month, days after Coles’ AGM saw broker Citi release a bullish note on Coles shares. Citi rated Coles as a ‘buy’ with a 12-month share price target of $19.60. Citi reckons Coles shares are cheap compared to Woolworths, pointing to “supply chain cost pressures, moderating fruit deflation and pent up demand” as tailwinds.

So these factors may have been at play for Coles shares’ stellar November. At today’s Coles share price of $17.92 (so far), this ASX 200 stalwart has a market capitalisation of $23.93 billion, with a dividend yield of 3.4%.

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The Electro Optic Systems Hldg Ltd (ASX: EOS) share price is edging higher during afternoon market trading. This comes after the defence contractor announced a successful demonstration of its C4 Edge program.

At the time of writing, the Electro Optic Systems share price is up 2.21% to $2.54.

What did the defence contractor announce?

In today’s statement, Electro Optic Systems advised that the Australian Army-sponsored industry initiative, the C4 Edge program, has achieved a major milestone.

A battlegroup and below prototype demonstration took place at the Majura Field Firing Training Range in the ACT on Monday.

The demonstration involved a number of mounted, dismounted, and uninhabited platforms across a single network in a combat environment.

Electro Optic Systems said high-ranking Australian military commanders were in attendance to watch the test.

C4 Edge is a collaborative industry program involving 30 businesses. It aims to provide battle critical communications solutions for military operations on land.

This incorporates locally-sourced combat radios, satellite terminals, cryptography, networking middleware, command applications, user interfaces, batteries, and power management into a coherent system.

The government defence industry policy has sought greater emphasis on sovereign solutions. As such, the defence department’s potential investment in all land C4 programs is estimated to exceed $5 billion over the next decade.

EOS defence systems Australia CEO, Matthew Jones, commented:

C4 EDGE as a demonstration of Australian industry capability has surpassed expectations – proving that it has the capacity, capability and will to deliver a C4 system that can meet the future needs of the Australian Army. C4 EDGE has delivered a roadmap for the development of the sovereign C4 eco-system including options to take the demonstration proof of concept through to commercial production.

Electro Optic Systems share price snapshot

It has been a difficult year for Electro Optic Systems shareholders, with the share price tumbling about 60%. The company’s share price fell to a 52-week low of $2.28 this week before rebounding strongly.

Electro Optic Systems commands a market capitalisation of $381 million and has about 150.9 million shares on issue.

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The Genex Power Ltd (ASX: GNX) share price shot up 12% to 21.5 cents in early trade today, after the company signed off on a deal with green energy giant, Tesla Motors Australia Pty Ltd. 

Shares in the Australian power generation company have since retreated to 20.5 cents apiece, up 7.89 cents at the time of writing.

Under the deal, Genex’s Bouldercombe Battery Project, operating out of Rockhampton, Queensland, will integrate Tesla’s real-time trading and control platform, Autobidder. The aim is to “optimise dispatch behaviour from the BBP, maximising revenue and operating efficiency”.

Genex CEO James Harding called the news a “key milestone” in moving the project towards a financial close.  

Why is the Genex share price lifting?

Back in early October, the company announced that Tesla would supply 40 of its Megapack utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) to the project, and would be warrantied for 20 years. 

The agreement also states that Tesla “will provide a minimum level of contracted revenues to support project financing of the development of BBP”, which will help push towards financial close. 

Investors appear to welcome the news as Australia moves towards a greener, more renewable future.

Genex has promised that its portfolio of renewable power projects will provide clean energy to more than 350,000 homes by 2025, offsetting almost two megatonnes of CO2 per annum. 

Here’s how Genex has performed recently…

The Genex share price has appeared relatively stable over the past 12 months, up 7.89%.

It saw dips occurring in early April and towards the end of November — coinciding with the financing for the Kidston Pumped Hydro Storage Project (K2 Hydro), and the sudden sell of director Simon Kidston’s shares just a few months later. 

At the time of writing, Genex has a market capitalisation of around $219 million.

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Looking at the Australian Foundation Investment Co.Ltd. (ASX: AFI) share price, and it’s clear that December so far hasn’t been too kind. Australian Foundation Investment Co (AFIC for short) shares are trading at $8.27 each at the time of writing today, up 0.61% so far. This is a company that started the month at $8.25 a share, meaning they have been flat since the start of the month until today.

So what has sparked AFIC’s miserly returns over December thus far?

Well, it’s worth pointing out that the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) has actually turned its month around so far and is now well in the green for December, up 2.2% for the month to date. That certainly doesn’t make AFIC look too good since this listed Investment Company (LIC) is often held up against the ASX 200 benchmark.

So let’s check out AFIC’s most recent fund update for some potential answers. So AFIC released its ‘NTA & Top 25 Investments’ update last Friday for the month of November. It reported that the LIC had $7.55 per share (before tax) in net tangible asset (NTA) backing as of 30 November, which was up slightly from the $7.51 NTA that the LIC had on 31 October.

That put’s its 1-year return (including dividends and franking) at 20%, a significant beat from the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index‘s 17% figure for the same period. But these figures also tell us an interesting story.

AFIC share price lags in December…

You may notice that AFIC’s current share price is well above what the company tells us its shares are actually worth on an NTA backing. That means that AFIC shares are currently trading on a premium – just over 10% to be exact. This is not uncommon in the LIC space. There is nothing that dictates that a LIC has to trade at its true value. As such, the market often assigns a premium, or discount, to LICs.

This is arguably influenced (there’s no way to actually tell) by a number of factors, including performance history, expectations, and how well the market views a particular fund manager.

Given AFIC’s decades-long history as a respected steward of investors capital, and its recent ASX 200 outperformance, it’s not too hard to conceive why investors might place AFIC shares at a premium to their actual worth.

But this also gives the AFIC share price something of a ‘premium buffer’. Investors can bid the price down and still sell AFIC shares for more than they are actually worth on paper. This might explain the divergence of the ASX 200’s December performance and that of the AFIC share price.

At the current AFIC share price, this ASX LIC has a market capitalisation of $10.13 billion, with a fully franked dividend yield of 2.90%. 

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The Seven West Media Ltd (ASX: SWM) share price is in the red today despite good news regarding its planned acquisition of Prime Media Group Limited (ASX: PRT).

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has given the deal the thumbs up. The ACCC concluded that combining the companies won’t affect media competition in a major way.

Despite the good news, the Seven West Media share price is tumbling. At the time of writing, it is trading at 62 cents, 3.91% lower than its previous close.

Let’s take a closer look at the acquisition and the ACCC’s verdict.

Seven West share price slides despite ACCC approval

For the second time in 2 years, Seven West Media is trying to buy fellow Australian media entity, Prime Media.

Seven announced it was going to make a second attempt to buy Prime Media in early November. The ACCC has approved the deal, as it did back in 2019, but Seven still has to win over Prime shareholders.

That was the hurdle that tripped up the pair’s first proposed merger in 2019. It was scrapped when 53.5% of Prime Media shareholders voted against the transaction.

The Prime Media Board has unanimously recommended that shareholders vote in favour of this second proposal.

ACCC chair, Rod Sims said that while the merger received the watchdog’s approval in 2019, the media market’s importance drove it to conduct another review.

Sims commented:

Consistent with our findings in 2019, we concluded that the proposed acquisition was unlikely to substantially lessen competition or choice for advertisers and consumers. This is because Seven West Media and Prime are not particularly close competitors in the supply of advertising opportunities or the supply of media content, and other competitors will constrain the merged entity.

Prime Media’s shareholders will cast their vote on the acquisition on 23 December.

The Seven West Media share price is up 18% since it announced its second attempt to buy Prime on 1 November.

The Seven West Media share price is also 70% higher than it was at the start of 2021.

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The BARD1 Life Sciences Limited (ASX: BD1) share price isn’t going anywhere on Thursday.

In fact, the BARD1 share price has vanished completely from the ASX boards today.

Where is the BARD1 share price?

The good news is that nothing bad has happened to the BARD1 share price or the company itself.

The reason you can’t see it on the ASX boards is because this morning the company’s name and ticker change came into effect.

Following the approval of shareholders at its annual general meeting at the end of November, the diagnostic and exosome-based products company has now renamed itself INOVIQ Ltd (ASX: IIQ).

Why did BARD1 become INOVIQ?

The company changed its name to INOVIQ as it feels this better reflects the strategic vision, broader intellectual property assets, and its expanded product portfolio since its acquisition of Sienna Cancer Diagnostics in 2020.

This is because the original name of BARD1 related to its BARD1 technology and doesn’t reflect its broader interests across other technologies such as the SubB2M, NETs and hTERT.

INOVIQ’s CEO, Dr Leearne Hinch, explained: “The name change to INOVIQ represents the evolution of the Company’s expanded focus on developing and commercialising innovative diagnostic and exosome-based products to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases. The new name future-proofs the continued growth and expansion of our business, capabilities, and product portfolio. We thank shareholders for their support of the name change and look forward to unveiling the new brand and website in coming weeks.”

Prior to the name change, the BARD1 share price was up approximately 59% in 2021. Investors will no doubt be hoping the INOVIQ share price picks up from where BARD1 left off.

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