ASX Announcements
Market Sensitive
Finalization of sale of non-core assets
Asset Disposal, Progress Report
- Nov 27, 2024
- 2 pages
Company Presentation, Chairman's Address to Shareholders
- Nov 26, 2024
- 6 pages
Market Sensitive
Company Presentation, Chairman's Address to Shareholders
- Nov 21, 2024
- 21 pages
July
Lithium play Lake Resources slashes jobs and puts assets up for sale
The ASX-listed group said this would allow it to focus on its flagship $2 billion Kachi project in Argentina, which has already been delayed until 2027.
- Brad Thompson
March
Barrenjoey, Canaccord raising for Lake Resources; 39.1pc discount
Lake had Barrenjoey and Canaccord Genuity seeking buyers for 214 million shares at 7¢ apiece, which was a steep 39.1 per cent discount to the last close.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
June 2023
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
It’s time to ban penny stocks from Australia’s flagship share index
The collapse of Lake Resources and poor performance of BrainChip and Imugene shows why there’s no place for penny stocks in a serious sharemarket index.
- Tom Richardson
Lake Resources says its flagship lithium project will be 6 years late
The company also disclosed that its chief executive, David Dickson, had agreed to pay a $US100,000 ($146,000) civil penalty in the US, sending shares diving.
- Elouise Fowler
March 2023
Should shareholdings by a director’s spouse be disclosed?
When a bank CEO’s husband bought shares, it revealed a little-known aspect of markets: trades of a director’s spouse do not always need market disclosure.
- Updated
- Liam Walsh
Alex Turnbull, John Hempton and the inexact science of short selling
When hedge fund manager John Hempton became suspicious of Wirecard, little did he imagine a part in uncovering the ‘biggest fraud in German history’.
- Aaron Patrick
‘Screaming buy’: Lithium short seller switches sides
Tim Murray has shrugged off past attacks on Vulcan Energy & Lake Resources to join the C-suite at a rival US explorer.
- Tom Richardson
February 2023
Lithium stock bubble pops for retail investors
Short-sellers are lifting bets against the most popular stocks to own among a new generation of investors in a direct clash of views.
- Tom Richardson
August 2022
- Opinion
- Hedge funds
How a quant may have unleashed the revenge of the meme stocks
“Let ’em come,” Cliff Asness told meme traders after revealing he was shorting their favourite stock, AMC. And come they did.
- Jonathan Shapiro
July 2022
Lake Resources scrambles to respond to short report
Lake Resources is preparing a response to research firm J Capital’s short report as its partner, Lilac, defends its lithium extraction technology.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Tom Richardson
- Analysis
- Sharemarket
Short sellers raise bets against ASX retailers, lithium plays
Nearly 10 per cent of shares in Afterpay-owner Block are shorted, while analysts are scrambling to reduce profit forecasts for retailers ahead of their profit reports.
- Tom Richardson
June 2022
Lake Resources plunge exposes concerns about ASX 200 index
The sudden 55 per cent collapse in a week for much-hyped lithium player Lake Resources has raised questions about the market’s most followed benchmark.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Alex Gluyas
- Opinion
- Hedge funds
Lithium play tanks 50pc in comical entry into ASX 200
Lake Resources’ calamitous first week as a top 200 ASX company is yet another demonstration of retail hubris and institutional apathy.
- Jonathan Shapiro
April 2022
Lake Resources shares surge 10pc as it unveils Ford lithium deal
Lake Resources shares shot up on a lithium supply deal with US automotive giant Ford as Elon Musk tweeted about the mineral’s “insane” price amid supply pressures.
- Michael Bennet
September 2021
Canadians call for lithium play Lake Resources
ASX-listed lithium play Lake Resources has fallen on to the radar of a Canadian export credit agency.
- Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood
June 2021
Ex-Wallabies captain joins junior miner
A Byron Bay pub deal may have triggered some sharemarket selling, while the lithium hype has helped another chief executive cash out.
- Tom Richardson
February 2020
ASX-listed miner surges as Bill Gates backs its tech investment
An investment in a Californian mining tech company has boosted locally listed lithium developer Lake Resources, after some of the biggest names in tech joined in.
- Luke Housego
March 2019
Lithium market supply concerns 'overblown'
The lithium markets troubles are overblown, according to Lake Resources managing director Steve Promnitz.
- Luke Housego