Gold Price, Markets Trade Flat After US Strikes on Iran

An escalating conflict between Israel and Iran drew military inolvement from the US over the weekend, marking a significant ratcheting up of tensions in the region. On Saturday (June 21), US B-2 bombers flying out of Whiteman Air Base and a US submarine stationed in an undisclosed location launched strikes against three sites in Iran. […]Read More

Oil Prices Rise, Then Tumble as Iran Retaliates Against US

Oil prices plummeted over 6 percent on Monday (June 23) as Iran launched a missile strike on a US military base in Qatar in retaliation for American airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Reuters reported that Brent crude futures dropped US$4.90, or 6.3 percent, to settle at US$72.19 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) […]Read More

Halcones Precious Metals Grants Stock Options and Restricted Share Units

Halcones Precious Metals Corp. (TSX-V: HPM) (the ‘ Company ‘ or ‘ Halcones ‘) announces it has granted a total of 3,500,000 stock options (‘Options’) to purchase common shares of the Company to certain officers, directors and consultants pursuant to the Company’s Stock Option Plan. Such Options are exercisable into common shares of the Company […]Read More

Trump hails ‘monumental’ damage as experts await verdict on Iran’s

As the dust still settles following the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, analysts say the next steps will determine whether the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions have truly been crippled.  Commenting on the mission, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that: ‘The damage to the Nuclear sites in Iran is said to be ‘monumental.’ […]Read More

Trump admin secures pledge from 75% of health insurers in

Roughly three-quarters of the nation’s health insurance providers signed a series of commitments this week in an effort to improve patient care by reducing bureaucratic hurdles caused by insurance companies’ prior-authorization requirements. Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced […]Read More

Apple sued by shareholders who allege it overstated AI progress

Apple was sued on Friday by shareholders in a proposed securities fraud class action that accused it of downplaying how long it needed to integrate advanced artificial intelligence into its Siri voice assistant, hurting iPhone sales and its stock price. The complaint covers shareholders who suffered potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of losses in […]Read More

Walmart to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit over money

Walmart has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit accusing the world’s largest retailer of ignoring warning signs that fraudsters used its money transfer services to fleece consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The settlement was filed on Friday in Chicago federal court, and requires approval by […]Read More

Hakeem Jeffries demands Trump ‘justify’ striking Iran, but side-steps impeachment

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is demanding President Donald Trump and his senior officials ‘justify’ the U.S. military’s recent strikes in Iran. ‘We’ve seen no evidence to date that an offensive strike of this nature was justified under the War Powers Act or the Constitution,’ Jeffries said.  ‘But the whole reason for the Trump administration […]Read More