Our Investment Planning Committee has upgraded Canadian mining stock Teck Resources to a 'buy'. Its shares are better priced and its earnings are expected to jump as the global economy grows faster. Resume buying Teck for long-term capital gains and small dividends.Our Investment Planning Committee has upgraded Vancouver-based mining stock Teck Resources (TSX-TECK.B; NYSE-TECK) to a buy. Resume bu...Read More
To strive in the face of adversity is the mantle of Nepali tradition. The country has a historically tumultuous government that has dissolved and transformed many times, either due to in-fighting, public pressure, or most infamously, the massacre of its royal family by its own prince.The current state of government affairs cannot be described without highlighting corruption, especially bribery. C...Read More
To strive in the face of adversity is the mantle of Nepali tradition. The country has a historically tumultuous government that has dissolved and transformed many times, either due to in-fighting, public pressure, or most infamously, the massacre of its royal family by its own prince.The current state of government affairs cannot be described without highlighting corruption, especially bribery. C...Read More
CEO David Cates explains why countries such as Saudi Arabia are using nuclear power over other sources of energy.Read More
Editor's note: The following comes from a longtime journalist who specializes in writing for major media outlets and private companies about robots, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).Would you allow a government official into your bedroom on your honeymoon? Or let your mother-in-law hear and record every conversation that takes place in your home or car - especially disagreements with you...Read More
Editor's note: The following comes from a longtime journalist who specializes in writing for major media outlets and private companies about robots, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).Would you allow a government official into your bedroom on your honeymoon? Or let your mother-in-law hear and record every conversation that takes place in your home or car - especially disagreements with you...Read More
Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG), the world's number four bullion miner in terms of output, is moving forward with its Century project, which aims to extend the life its century-old Dome mine in Ontario.The Dome mine received a death sentence in January 2016, when Goldcorp announced it was closing the operation in the summer due to weak bullion prices that nearly half the company's share pric...Read More
Four companies, including two foreign ones, have won Egypt's gold mining exploration tender for five concessions in the Eastern Desert and the Sinai Peninsula, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Monday.Britain's Veritas Mining Limited, Ghassan Spain Investment, and Egypt's East Gas Company won a concession each while Resolute Egypt won two, El Molla said in a statement.Egypt is hoping that...Read More
Over the past several decades, cars have become increasingly high tech allowing for computers to take larger roles in the routine functions of the car. Computerized functions have been a boon to consumers, who advantage from greater reliability and efficiency, but also to criminal hackers who advantage from greater vulnerability.Starting around the turn of the last decade tech enthusiasts starte...Read More
Over the past several decades, cars have become increasingly high tech allowing for computers to take larger roles in the routine functions of the car. Computerized functions have been a boon to consumers, who advantage from greater reliability and efficiency, but also to criminal hackers who advantage from greater vulnerability.Starting around the turn of the last decade tech enthusiasts starte...Read More
Germany has taken its war on “hate speech,” also known as free speech, to the people.Already Germany has pretty strict laws against citizens using Nazi symbols and denying that the Holocaust happened. Apparently, lawmakers miss the irony of going full Gestapo on citizens for free speech, as offensive as it may be.But they are not stopping there. The German government has raided the hom...Read More
Germany has taken its war on “hate speech,” also known as free speech, to the people.Already Germany has pretty strict laws against citizens using Nazi symbols and denying that the Holocaust happened. Apparently, lawmakers miss the irony of going full Gestapo on citizens for free speech, as offensive as it may be.But they are not stopping there. The German government has raided the hom...Read More
The police do not care about keeping you safe. If they did, they wouldn’t put innocent people in danger every day by driving unmarked cars, behaving unprofessionally, and performing no-knock raids. All these things make it quite easy to impersonate an officer in order to commit a crime.People know their lives are literally in jeopardy if they disobey even the most minor order from a police o...Read More
The police do not care about keeping you safe. If they did, they wouldn’t put innocent people in danger every day by driving unmarked cars, behaving unprofessionally, and performing no-knock raids. All these things make it quite easy to impersonate an officer in order to commit a crime.People know their lives are literally in jeopardy if they disobey even the most minor order from a police o...Read More
Canada's largest diversified miner Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) (NYSE:TCK) is buying Goldcorp's (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG) 21% minority interest in the San Nicol??s copper-zinc project located in Zacatecas, Mexico for $50 million.Once the deal is completed, which is expected to happen in the third quarter of 2017, Teck will be the sole owner of the San Nicol??s project, which it would be an open-pit oper...Read More
Is the FBI a political organization run rampant, using trumped up charges against anyone with whom they or the political elites disagree?That’s what you would be told from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and now Bernie Sanders. All three (or Bernie’s wife rather) have been embroiled in some sort of FBI shenanigans within the last year.For Hillary, even though she was obvio...Read More
Is the FBI a political organization run rampant, using trumped up charges against anyone with whom they or the political elites disagree?That’s what you would be told from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and now Bernie Sanders. All three (or Bernie’s wife rather) have been embroiled in some sort of FBI shenanigans within the last year.For Hillary, even though she was obvio...Read More
Finally, Congress is doing something about a serious issue on everyone's mind; they have introduced a bill to ban dog and cat meat from being sold and eaten in the United States.But wait, isn't this cultural insensitivity towards those from countries who regularly eat dogs and cats?China is still the most likely country to see dog or cat meat eaten, even hosting a dog meat festival every year. But...Read More
Finally, Congress is doing something about a serious issue on everyone's mind; they have introduced a bill to ban dog and cat meat from being sold and eaten in the United States.But wait, isn't this cultural insensitivity towards those from countries who regularly eat dogs and cats?China is still the most likely country to see dog or cat meat eaten, even hosting a dog meat festival every year. But...Read More
Freedom of speech is up there with guns for rights that Americans hold sacred. The political elite has to get creative when they try to take these rights away, lest the backlash makes them lose ground rather than gain it.By and large, that has been the case with guns; everytime talk starts about restrictive gun control, gun sales soar. Most people realize banning guns would not be feasible, and ev...Read More