TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (12,389.42, down 108.52 points):
Orbite Aluminae Inc. (TSX:ORT). Miner. Down 27 cents, or 10.67 per cent, at $2.26 on 10,117,553 shares.
Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Transportation equipment. Unchanged at $4.79 on 9,945,021 shares.
Yellow Media Inc. (TSX:YLO). Directory publisher. Down 2.5 cents, or 13.89 per cent, at 15.5 cents on 9,746,680 shares.
Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Insurer. Down 13 cents, or 1.09 per cent, at $11.75 on 7,028,589 shares.
Uranium One Inc. (TSX:UUU). Miner. Up three cents, or 1.10 per cent, at $2.76 on 5,439,836 shares.
TSX Venture Exchange (1,653.55, down 11.27 points):
Nevada Sunrise Gold Corp. (TSXV:NEV). Miner. Up six cents, or 66.67 per cent, at 15 cents on 13,979,785 shares.
CardioComm Solutions Inc. (TSXV:EKG). Health care. Up 17.5 cents, or 45.45 per cent, at 56 cents on 13,787,888 shares.
Companies reporting major news:
Fibrek Inc. (TSX:FBK). Pulp and paper. Up 19 cents, or 16.81 per cent, at $1.32 on 5,949,441 shares. The pulp producer struck a friendly deal to be acquired by Vancouver-based Mercer International Inc., topping a $130-million offer by Resolute Forest Products (TSX:ABH), the former AbitibiBowater and a minority shareholder of Fibrek.
SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC). Engineering. Down $2.65, or 4.95 per cent, at $50.90 on 780,932 shares. The engineering giant faces short-term difficulties in the Middle East amid reports of close ties between two executives and a woman facing charges related to Libya's former regime, but should recover when the dust settles, analysts said Friday.
Canadian National Railway Co. (TSX:CNR). Railway. Down 82 cents, or 1.05 per cent, at $77.38 on 696,067 shares. The company said Friday it's cancelling almost $40 million in future pension and other benefit payments to retired CEO Hunter Harrison, who has said he wants to take the top job at rival Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
