It’s been a historic week for precious metals, with gold nearly hitting the US$3,600 per ounce mark, and silver passing US$41 per ounce for the first time since 2011. The gold price spent the summer in a consolidation phase, and part of what’s spurring its latest move is expectations that…
Lode Gold Resources Inc. (TSXV: LOD,OTC:LODFF) (OTCQB: LODFF) (‘Lode Gold’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce that it has now closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement offering for $1.0 million (the ‘Offering’). In three tranches, the Company raised total gross proceeds of $1,513,768 through the issuance of 8,409,825…
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 16 basis points to 6.29% Friday, according to Mortgage News Daily, following the release of a weaker-than-expected August employment report. It’s the lowest rate since Oct. 3 and the biggest one-day drop since August 2024. Rates are finally breaking out of…
China’s Xi Jinping likes getting the world stirred up with military confrontation. Perhaps that’s why he wore his Mao Zedong high-collar suit, channeling the aura of the 1949 revolution, to the first major military parade in China since 2019. With him stood Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un,…
A Senate Democrat compared language from one of the nation’s founding documents to that of Iran during a Senate hearing considering President Donald Trump’s nominees. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pushed back against the opening statement of Riley Barnes, who was tapped by Trump to serve as assistant secretary of state…
Vice President JD Vance shot back at senators who clashed withHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday, saying they are ‘full of s— and everyone knows it.’ Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pressed Kennedy during the hearing, accusing him of…
President Donald Trump stood by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. after he faced an intense grilling from senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday, telling reporters, ‘I like the fact that he’s different.’ While speaking with the press during his dinner with technology industry leaders at the White…
The U.S. accepted a luxury Boeing Jet as a gift from Qatar in May, with plans to retrofit it to become the next Air Force One. The Air Force says the effort will cost less than $400 million for the updates. Other estimates show it could cost more than $1…
Israel has 40% control of Gaza City as the Israel Defense Forces are now preparing to seize the entire area, an Israeli military spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin told reporters at a news briefing that his forces had already secured large neighborhoods in its latest offensive. ‘We continue…
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow the president to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, after lower courts ruled he lacks the authority to remove members of independent agencies without cause. President Donald Trump moved to fire Rebecca Slaughter earlier this year, but…