Most actively traded companies on the TSX

Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:

Toronto Stock Exchange (14,540.00, down 263.26 points):

Bankers Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:BNK). Oil and gas. Up 18 cents, or nine per cent, to $2.18 on 26.5-million shares.

Crescent Point Energy (TSX:CPG). Oil and gas. Down $2.11, or 10.41 per cent, to $18.15 on 13-million shares.

Telesta Therapeutics Inc. (TSX:TST). Health care. Unchanged at 14 cents on 10.5-million shares.

Aston Hill Financial Inc. (TSX:AHF). Asset management. Up 6.5 cents, or 81.25 per cent, to 14.5 cents on 6.4-million shares. Two Canadian mutual fund operators have a plan to create a larger independent money manager with $3.1 billion of assets under management. The friendly deal announced Friday would combine publicly traded Aston Hill Financial Inc. and Front Street Capital 2004, both based in Toronto.

Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE). Oil and gas. Down 39 cents, or 6.14 per cent, to $5.96 on 6.3-million shares.

Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Aerospace, rail equipment. Down one cent, or 0.50 per cent, to $2.01 on 6.3-million shares.

Companies reporting major news:

TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP). Oil and gas. Down eight cents, or 0.13 per cent, to $60.96 on 1.7-million shares. The National Energy Board says all three Energy East reviewers have recused themselves from future hearings, following complaints that two members met privately with a TransCanada consultant last year. The Calgary-based national energy regulator also has limited the duties of the board chair and vice-chair, who will not be involved in choosing the new panel to resume Energy East hearings at a later date.