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 100,000 common shares of the…
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 crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Canada first launched Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in 2021. These Canadian Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs allow investors…
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 declare victory after securing all…
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 (CPI) numbers on Tuesday (November…
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 on investors. 1. Bitcoin nears…
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 Icelandic Met Office. The eruption…
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, according to a statement from…
Brazilian authorities have indicted ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, accusing him of “full knowledge” of a 2022 plot to kill his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and overturn the results of the presidential election. Earlier this week, Brazilian police arrested five people, including a former adviser to Bolsonaro, over the alleged plots. The coup plotters also…
Russia launched a new non-nuclear ballistic missile with medium range on Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Thursday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in a televised statement, marking another significant escalation in the 1,000-day-old war. According to US and Western officials, the ballistic missile carried multiple warheads, which may be the first time such a weapon has…
Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 42 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said. The attack happened in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where sectarian clashes between majority…
