TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (down 43.43 points at-,338.98):
Eastern Platinum Ltd. (TSX:ELR). Mining. Down' cents, or 11.25 per cent, at $1.42 on 17,815,693 shares. The Vancouver-based miner had recouped losses in the previous two heavily-traded days after a Raymond James analyst recommended the stock for its "attractive valuation and expected positive quarterly results."
Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Transportation equipment. Up 37 cents, or 4.97 per cent, at $7.82 on 9,967,546 shares.
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX:PEG). Down 10 cents, or 1.04 per cent, at $9.50 on 7,957,138 shares.
Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM). Oil and gas. Down 58 cents, or 3.16 per cent, at $17.77 with 5,882,319 shares traded. The TSX energy sector tumbled 3.5 per cent as the price of light, sweet crude fell $4.82 to $115.20 in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, bringing its decline over the past four weeks to nearly $30.
Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX:K). Mining. Down 86 cents, 4.61 per cent, at $16.64 with 5,503,102 shares. The TSX gold sector led the losing indexes, down 4.1 per cent as the December bullion contract dropped $13.10 to closed at $864.80.
UTS Energy Corp. (TSX:UTS). Oil and Gas. Down 26 cents, or 5.78 per cent, at $4.24 on 5,258,785 shares.
TSX Venture Exchange (down 38.72 points at 2,091.47):
Energulf Resources Inc. (TSXV:ENG). Oil and gas. Down-- cents, 21.88 per cent, at 50 cents with 2,899,445 traded.
Petrostar Petroleum Corp. (TSXV:PEP). Oil and gas. Down four cents, or 8.33 per cent, at 52 cents on 1,439,400 shares.
Companies reporting major news:
Air Canada (TSX:AC.A). Transport. Up a penny, 0.17 per cent, at $5.92 on 326,125 shares. Net profit dropped to $122 million, or $1.22 per share, from $155 million in the second quarter of 2007. Passenger revenue increases five per cent in second quarter over last year, while fuel expenses rose by $212 million. Shares rose a penny to $5.92.
Telus Corp. (TSX:T). Telecom. Up $1.88, or 4.83 per cent, to $40.83 with 1,244,529 shares traded. Net income in the second quarter was $267 million, up 5.5 per cent from a year earlier, while revenue was $2.4 billion, up eight per cent from a year earlier.
Domtar Corp. (TSX:UFS). Forestry. Up 70 cents, 12.39 per cent, at $6.35 with--4,097 traded. Reported a more than doubling of its second-quarter profit to $24 million or five cents per diluted share, up from $11 million or two cents per share a year earlier as sales increased by 3.5 per cent. Shares rose 70 cents to $6.35.
NovaGold Resources Inc. (TSX:NG). Mining. Down 41 cents, 5.51 per cent, at $7.03 with 526,025 shares changing hands. Company was hit with a U.S. lawsuit filed by disgruntled investors who say they weren't given enough warning about problems at the now-halted Galore Creek mining project in British Columbia.
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