TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (9,187.12 up 217.84 points):
Quebecor World Inc. (TSX:IQW). Printer. Up three cents, or 35.29 per cent, to 11.5 cents on 17,254,528 shares. The Montreal-based company's shares shot up a day after it reached a deal with its creditors to recapitalize and reduce the company's debt. Quebecor World's operating under bankruptcy protection.
Teck Cominco Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B). Miner. Up $1.19, or 13.60 per cent, to $9.94 on 16,588,866 shares. The debt-plagued Vancouver mining giant's shares continue to rise a day after announcing it has sold about 5.6 million common shares of Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX:K), raising about US$101 million. Shares are at its highest since early November.
Eastern Platinum Ltd. (TSX:ELR). Miner. Up 10 cents, or 20.83 per cent, to 58 cents on 16,005,603 shares.
Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Transportation equipment. Up 22 cents, or 6.47 per cent, to $3.62 on 15,017,501 shares. The plane and train maker has been awarded a contract to supply 60 MI09 trainsets for the greater Paris suburb for an undisclosed sum.
Breakwater Resources Ltd. (TSX:BWR). Miner. Up 1.5 cents, or 15.79 per cent, to 11 cents on 14,369,983 shares.
Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Insurer. Up $2.03, or 12.33 per cent, to $18.50 on 10,755,046 shares. The financial sector on the TSX led the advancers, soaring 5.68 per cent to 128.83 points.
TSX Venture Exchange (968.97 up 18.27 points):
Pan Terra Resource Corp. (TSXV:PAN). Shale Gas explorer and developer. Up 1.5 cents, or 25 per cent, to 7.5 cents on 12,726,650 shares.
Q-Gold Resources Ltd. (TSXV:QAU). Miner. Down half a cent, or 25 per cent, to 1.5 cents on 4,030,050 shares.
Companies reporting major news:
Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS). Media. Up half a cent, or 1.59 per cent, to 32 cents on 513,580 shares after posting a quarterly loss of $1.44 billion, including a $1.19 billion writedown of assets. That amounted to $8.09 a share compared with a year-earlier loss of $34 million or 19 cents a share. Revenue totalled $637 million, down from $701 million.
Cogeco Cable Inc. (TSX:CCA). Cable and Internet service provider. Down 65 cents, or 1.97 per cent, to $32.35 on 116,955 shares as it reported a second-quarter loss of $358.6 million which includes a $383.6 million net non-cash charge related to its Portugese subsidiary. That amounted to $7.39 a share compared with year ago $49.9 million or $1.02 a share. Revenue rose 15 per cent.
Telus shares (TSX:T). Telecom. Down $3.92, or 11.04 per cent, to $31.58 on 3,396,583 shares. News of a slow growth at Telus' wireless arm and less revenue per user during the first three months of the year wiped out a month's gain of the Vancouver-based company's shares.
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