ASX debutant US-based lithium explorer Chariot Corporation (ASX:CC9) has begun trading under the ticker code CC9. But at around 27.5 cents a share, it's performing well below the 45-cent issue price for its $9 million IPO earlier this month. Funds raised through the IPO will fund phase one diamond drilling next month at Chariot's Black Mountain project in the US. Also today, global gold giant Newmont Corporation returned to the ASX under the code NEM. This follows its $26 billion acquisition of Newcrest Mining. Newmont is already listed in New York and Toronto. And on the ASX today, with about 200,000 trades, Newmont's been sitting at $59.56. Harvey Norman (ASX:HVN) is up more than 2 and a half per cent today despite revealing its unaudited preliminary profit before tax for the September quarter fell 49 per cent. Aggregated sales revenue decreased by more than 9 per cent – compared with the same time last year.