Most actively traded companies on the TSX

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

Toronto Stock Exchange (14,227.36, down 233.24 points):

Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM). Oil and gas. Up three cents, or 0.37 per cent, to $8.16 on 13.8 million shares.

Chaparral Gold Corp. (TSX:CHL). Miner. Down half-a-cent, or 0.83 per cent, to 60 cents on 13.6 million shares.

Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Oil and gas. Down 85 cents, or 2.27 per cent, to $36.66 on 5.4 million shares.

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ). Oil and gas. Down 58 cents, or 1.48 per cent, to $38.48 on 5.1 million shares.

Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Insurer. Down 51 cents, or 2.42 per cent, to $20.57 on 5 million shares.

Athabasca Oil Corp. (TSX:ATH). Oil and gas. Up three cents, or 0.66 per cent, to $4.59 on 4.8 million shares.

Companies reporting major news:

Canadian National Railway Co. (TSX:CNR), down $2.25, or 3.02 per cent, to $72.25 on 2.3 million shares. Falling railroad stocks helped push the industrial sector down 2.65 per cent.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TCX:CP), down $10.44, or 4.69 per cent, to $212.20 on 1.2 million shares.

Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB). Oil and gas. Down 66 cents, or 1.29 per cent, to $50.31 on 1.8 million shares. The National Energy Board has delayed the start-up of Enbridge’s newly reversed Line 9 pipeline as it seeks greater assurances that waterways will be protected. Line 9 had been targeted to begin shipping western crude between southern Ontario and Montreal in early November, but it’s looking like that will be pushed back by at least a few months.