March 06, 2019 - 1:43 PM
Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (16,092.07, up 5.53 points).
Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Health care. Down 21 cents, or 1.94 per cent, to $10.59 on 30.2 million shares.
Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Industrials. Down 12 cents, or 4.07 per cent, to $2.83 on 13.4 million shares.
Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA). Energy. Down 40 cents, or 4.10 per cent, to $9.36 on 9.9 million shares.
Lundin Mining Corp. (TSX:LUN). Materials. Down 33 cents, or 4.78 per cent, to $6.57 on 8.4 million shares.
Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE). Energy. Down six cents, or 2.53 per cent, to $2.31 on 6.8 million shares.
Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Financials. Down 25 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $22.48 on 6.7 million shares.
Companies reporting:
Aecon Group Inc. (TSX:ARE). Up 99 cents or 5.3 per cent to $19.58. On the heels of record annual revenues and successful project bids, Aecon Group Inc. says it is not yet feeling any pressure from high-risk, fixed-bid infrastructure contracts it will face over the next couple of years. CEO Jean-Louis Servranckx says none of those big jobs have yet experienced problems in the early stages of those contracts.
Pengrowth Energy Corp. (TSX:PGF). Down one cent to 71 cents. Pengrowth Energy has launched a strategic review of options that could include the sale of the company after failing to renegotiate its high debt load amid plunging western Canadian oil prices late last year. The Calgary-based company, which has reduced production at its key Lindbergh steam-driven heavy oil project in eastern Alberta to comply with the province's oil curtailment program, said Wednesday it has hired advisers to assist with the process.
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