Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Friday (August 8) as of 9:00 a.m. UTC. Get the latest insights on Bitcoin, Ethereum and altcoins, along with a round-up of key cryptocurrency market news. Bitcoin and Ethereum price update Bitcoin (BTC) was priced at US$116,381, trading flat over the last 24 hours. Its highest valuation on Friday was US$116,112, ...

Lode Gold Resources Inc. (TSXV: LOD,OTC:LODFF) (OTCQB: LODFF) (‘Lode Gold’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce that it has completed the third and final tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement offering for $1 million. In this final tranche, the Company has raised an additional $326,780 through the issuance of 1,815,446 Units at a price of $0.18 per ...

Fertilizer prices continued to rise in Q2, driven by supply shortages as well as fallout from US tariffs. According to data from the World Bank, the average quarterly phosphate price rose to US$673.20 per metric ton (MT) during the April to June period, up from US$600.50 in Q1 and US$536.70 recorded in the second quarter of 2024. On a monthly ...

(TheNewswire) Vancouver, British Columbia, August 8th, 2025 TheNewswire Prismo Metals Inc. (‘ Prismo ‘ or the ‘ Company ‘) (CSE: PRIZ,OTC:PMOMF) (OTCQB: PMOMF) is pleased to announce that further to its news releases dated July 3, 2025, July 18, 2025 and July 31, 2025, the Company has proceeded with an upsized closing of its previously announced non-brokered private placement (the ...

By Darren Brady Nelson One of the underrated, and easily dismissed, stories from the first 100 days of the second Donald J. Trump presidency was in March 2025, when the president said: “We’re actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tonnes of gold.” Two developments have happened since. First ...

Statistics Canada released July’s labor force survey on Friday (August 8). The data shows that the Canadian economy shed 41,000 workers during the month and registered a 0.2 percent decline in the employment rate to 60.7 percent. However, the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.9 percent. The most significant segment for the decline was among youth aged 15 to 24, ...

Apple has been sued by a Texas company that accused the iPhone maker of stealing its technology to create its lucrative mobile wallet Apple Pay. In a complaint made public on Thursday, Fintiv said Apple Pay’s key features were based on technology developed by CorFire, which Fintiv bought in 2014, and now used in hundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads, ...

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin appear to be on track to soon have their first meeting since Trump took office for his second term earlier this year. ‘As for Ukrainian affairs directly, at the suggestion of the American side, an agreement was agreed upon in principle to hold a bilateral meeting at the highest level in the ...

Veteran Democratic operative Anita Dunn will be on Capitol Hill on Thursday for a closed-door interview with House Oversight Committee investigators. She is the tenth former White House official to appear before the panel’s lawyers, as Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., probes whether former President Joe Biden’s inner circle worked to cover up signs of mental decline in the elderly ...

Veteran Democratic operative Anita Dunn is on Capitol Hill on Thursday for a closed-door interview with House Oversight Committee investigators. Arriving minutes before 10 a.m. with her counsel in tow, Dunn did not speak to reporters on her way into the door despite a myriad of shouted questions being thrown at her about her upcoming interview. She is the tenth ...