At least 11 people have been killed and several others injured after an Israeli strike flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut overnight, Lebanese officials said. Rescue workers in Lebanon were on Saturday morning searching for survivors under the rubble in the densely populated Basta area of the Lebanese…
West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd. (TSXV: WHY) (FSE: W0H) (the ‘Company’ or ‘West High Yield’) announces the receipt of proceeds from the exercise of certain stock options (the ‘Options’) of the Company. One holder of options (the ‘Optionholder‘) exercised an aggregate of 100,000 Options resulting in the issuance of…
Tech giant Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) surpassed analyst expectations in both revenue and earnings per share in its recently released fiscal Q3 2025 results, driven by sustained demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips. For the quarter ending October 27, Nvidia reported adjusted earnings per share of US$0.81, exceeding the consensus estimate of…
Bitcoin achieved five new all-time high prices this week, boosted by a wave of renewed optimism and growing confidence in the future of the cryptocurrency. Meanwhile, MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) increased its Bitcoin holdings, sending its stock price to record-high valuations, and a major development in Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) anti-trust trial weighed heavily…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX) increased 1.74 percent on the week to close at 606.17 on Friday (November 8). Meanwhile, the S&P/TSX Composite Index (INDEXTSI:OSPTX) was up 2.16 percent to 25,444.28 and the CSE Composite Index (CSE:CSECOMP) fell 6.17 percent to 138.03. Statistics Canada released October consumer price index…
The price of Bitcoin rallied to nearly US$100,000 on November 22, reaching a new all-time high of US$99,645 as trading wrapped for the week. The popular cryptocurrency has been rising on the heels of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, which saw Donald Trump and the Republican Party…
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler will resign on Jan. 20, the agency announced Thursday, paving the way for President-elect Donald Trump to select a replacement immediately. Gensler took over the SEC in 2021, and under his leadership the commission has taken an ambitious but controversial approach to several…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday issued a finalized version of a rule saying it will soon supervise nonbank firms that offer financial services likes payments and wallet apps. Tech giants and payments firms that handle at least 50 million transactions annually will fall under the review, which is meant to ensure the…
The world’s tallest woman and the world’s shortest woman have met for afternoon tea in London to celebrate Guinness World Records Day. Rumeysa Gelgi, who stands 215.16 centimeters (7 feet 0.7 inches) tall, and Jyoti Amge, who measures just 62.8 centimeters (2 feet 0.7 inches), met at the Savoy Hotel,…
A volcano near Iceland’s capital erupted on Wednesday night, becoming the seventh such event in the area since December. The length of the fissure on the volcano, located in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula in the southwest of the country, is estimated to be approximately 3 kilometers (1.9 miles), according to the…