December 07, 2016 - 12:46 PM
Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (15,237.75, up 111.95 points):
B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO). Miner. Up five cents, or 1.51 per cent, to $3.37 on 7.3 million shares.
Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE). Oil and gas. Unchanged to $6.20 on 6.2 million shares.
Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA). Oil and gas. Down 30 cents, or 1.79 per cent, to $16.44 on 5.6 million shares.
Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Financial Services. Up 29 cents, or 1.24 per cent, to $23.69 on 5.1 million shares.
Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX). Miner. Up 37 cents, or 1.80 per cent, to $20.92 on five million shares.
Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI). Miner. Down one cent, or 0.25 per cent, to $4.07 on 4.7 million shares.
Companies reporting major news:
DH Corp. (TSX:DH). Application software. Up $2.68, or 13.97 per cent, to $21.87 on 2.2 million shares. DH Corp. says it has formed a special committee of independent directors to review expressions of interest from third parties to acquire the company. The company says a formal offer has not been received, but the committee has hired Credit Suisse and RBC Capital Markets as its financial advisers and Stikeman Elliott LLP as a legal adviser.
TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP). Oil and gas. Up 85 cents, or 1.44 per cent, to $60 on 1.2 million shares. TransCanada Corp. says it's moving ahead with a $655-million expansion of its Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. system in northwestern Alberta. The company says the Saddle West Expansion Project will add 29 kilometres of pipeline capacity to existing routes, as well as five compressor units, that together will increase the capacity of the system by about 355 million cubic feet per day.
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