Most actively traded companies on Canadian stock markets

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:

Toronto Stock Exchange (8,778.78 up 40.89 points):

Eastern Platinum Ltd. (TSX:ELR). Miner. Up three cents, or eight per cent, to 34.5 cents on 18,450,734 shares.
Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI). Miner. Up 21 cents, or 1.87 per cent, to $11.45 on 11,049,127 shares.
Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Insurer. Down $1.16, or 5.99 per cent, to $18.20 on 10,987,470 shares after recording its first quarterly loss ever since becoming a public company a decade ago. Net loss came to $1.87-billion as it was ravaged by slumping global financial markets.
Teck Cominco (TSX:TCK.B). Miner. Up five cents, or 1.01 per cent, to $5 on 10,057,171 shares.
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD). Financial. Down $1.13, or 2.89 per cent, to $37.93 on 7,704,807 shares.
Uranium One Inc. (TSX:UUU). Miner. Down a penny, or 0.45 per cent, to $2.23 on 6,448,520 shares. A Japanese consortium reported earlier in the week that it will pay $270 million for a 19.95 per cent interest in the Toronto-headquartered miner.

TSX Venture Exchange (915.87 up 4.61 points):
Slam Exploration Ltd. (TSXV:SXL). Junior explorer. Up half a cent, or 25 per cent, to 2.5 cents on 8,750,000 shares.
Cloudbreak Resources (TSXV:CDB). Mining. Up half a cent, or 6.67 per cent, to eight cents on 6,253,658 shares.

Companies reporting major news:
Canadian Tire Corp.(TSX:CTC). Retailer. Up $3.45, or 6.76 per cent, to $54.50 on 400 shares. Canada's largest hard goods retailer reported a 23 per cent drop in its fourth-quarter profit. The iconic retailer also said it's worried about the impact of the growing recession and said it won't provide profit and revenue predictions for the year because of the volatile economy.
Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund (TSX:CGX.UN). Theatre operator. Up 19 cents, or $13.95 on 142,217 shares as the movie theatre operator recorded its best year ever. Cineplex said that Hollywood blockbusters boosted theatre attendance in the final 2008 quarter by 16 per cent pushing revenues up at $211.4 million compared to $182.6 million from a year earlier.
EnCana Corp. (TSX:ECA). Energy. Up 29 cents, or 0.55 per cent, to $53.41 on 3,011,569 shares as it posted a flat net income in the last three months of 2008 at $1.08 billion compared to the same 2007 period. The energy giant said it locked in most of its 2009 natural gas production at prices well above their current levels to add a measure of protection against market volatility in the months ahead.

Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX:SLF). Insurer. Up 15 cents, or 0.65 per cent, to $23.15 on 3,062,480 shares as the firm suffered a 77 per cent decline in fourth-quarter net earnings as a result of deteriorating equity and credit markets.

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