Most actively traded companies on Canadian stock markets
- Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (up 248.53 points at 14,099.48):
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX:PEG). Oil and gas. Up five cents, or 3.55 per cent, at $1.46 on 12,990,135 shares. The energy sector was one of the advancers on the TSX as the near-month contract on the Nymex closed to another record high for three consecutive trading days. The energy subgroup was up 1.57 per cent while light, sweet crude oil for May delivery was at US$114.93, up $1.14.
Uranium One Inc. (TSX:UUU). Mining. Up 42 cents, or 9.88 per cent, at $4.67 on 10,504,798 shares.
Questerre Energy Corp. (TSX:QEC). Oil and gas. Up nine cents, or 4.23 per cent, at $2.22 on 8,699,561 shares. Junior firm Terrenex Ltd., which is currently under a stock-swap takeover bid with Questerre, reported it holds 109 net square kilometres in the St. Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec adjacent to the recent highly publicized Utica shale natural gas discovery announced by U.S. based-Forest Oil Corp. early in the month. Questerre was one of the companies Forest Oil is involved with.
Yamana Gold Corp. (TSX:YRI). Precious metal. Up 76 cents, or 5.25 per cent, at $15.24 on 8,252,067 shares. The gold sector was the leading advancer on the TSX closing up 3.49 per cent. The futures contract on the bullion at the Nymex closed up US$16.30 at $948.30.
Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM). Oil and gas. Up 21 cents, or one per cent, at $21.19 on 6,792,448 shares.
Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Transportation equipment. Up four cents, or 0.62 per cent, at $6.51 on 6,309,616 shares. The Montreal-based company's stock price ascended for a third day in a row as the Iraqi government announced on Monday it agreed to buy four more Bombardier Aerospace's CRJ-900 regional jets for US$159 million.
TSX Venture Exchange (up 27.18 points at 2,574.55):
Glass Earth Gold Ltd. (TSXV:GEL). Precious metals. Down 2.5 cents, or 14.71 per cent, at 14.5 cents on 19,841,000 shares.
Dumont Nickel Inc. (TSXV:DNI). Mining. Up two cents, or 40 per cent, at seven cents on 9,025,593 shares.
Companies reporting major news:
Adanac Molybdenum Corp. (TSX:AUA). Mining. Up 33 cents, or 55.93 per cent, at 92 cents on 2,933,681 shares after the metals miner announced it has secured an offer for $80-million in bridge financing.
TransGlobe Energy Corp. (TSX:TGL). Energy. Up 13 cents, or 2.70 per cent, at $4.95 on 45,326 shares. Direct Energy, the natural gas and electricity marketing subsidiary of Centrica PLC, is buying the Alberta oil and gas assets of TransGlobe for $56.7 million in cash.
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