Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum offer an alternative route for building and storing wealth. While directly holding these digital assets is a popular option, investors are also clamoring for financial products such as cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Canada first ...
A copper crunch is coming as demand builds and the hunt for viable deposits comes up short. That’s according to Robert Friedland, a well-known mining industry financier whose current roles include board leadership positions at Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN,OTCQX:IVPAF) and Ivanhoe ...
In recent weeks, Elon Musk’s Neuralink has captured the public’s attention and imagination with its futuristic vision of connecting the human brain to computers. As Neuralink, which is registered as a medical research company, continues to make strides, investors are ...
The BRICS nations, originally composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are looking to establish a new reserve currency backed by a basket of their respective currencies. The potential BRICS currency would allow these nations to assert their ...
Australia federally legalised medicinal cannabis in 2016, and Australia’s cannabis market has seen major growth since then. Medical cannabis approvals were up by 120 percent in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. Statista forecasts ...
For a long time, most of the world’s lithium was produced by an oligopoly of producers often referred to as the Big Three: Albemarle (NYSE:ALB), Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM) (NYSE:SQM) and Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM), formerly called Livent. ...
Copper miners with productive assets have much to gain as supply and demand tighten. The copper price hit a new all-time high of US$10,954 per metric ton (MT) on the London Metal Exchange and US$5.20 per pound on the COMEX ...
western copper and gold corporation (‘Western’ or the ‘Company’) (TSX: WRN) (NYSE American: WRN) is pleased to announce additions to the Company’s senior management team. In early August, Michael Psihogios will be taking over the role of Chief Financial Officer ...
Friday’s CrowdStrike software disaster has been described as “the largest IT outage in history,” and it brought home just how vulnerable the planet is to itty-bitty coding errors. We were busy publishing the DecisionPoint ALERT Weekly Wrap, so I didn’t ...
Police in South Africa arrested four people including two Mexican nationals after uncovering a multimillion-dollar drug manufacturing lab on a farm in the country’s north. The South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, commonly known ...