Most actively traded companies on the TSX

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

Toronto Stock Exchange (15,339.77, up 115.25 points):

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX:PRE). Oil and gas. Up 29 cents, or 7.11 per cent, to $4.37 on 8.5 million shares.

Macarthur Minerals Ltd. (TSX:MMS). Miner. Up one cent, or 16.67 per cent, to seven cents on 6.6 million shares.

Eldorado Gold Corp. (TSX:ELD). Miner. Up 14 cents, or 2.33 per cent, to $6.15 on 5.9 million shares.

Ram Power Corp. (TSX:RPG). Utilities. Unchanged at half-a-cent on 5.3 million shares.

Lundin Mining Corp. (TSX:LUN). Miner. Up 30 cents, or five per cent, to $6.30 on 4.5 million shares.

Lake Shore Gold Corp. (TSX:LSG). Miner. Up one cent, or 0.84 per cent, to $1.20 on 4.2 million shares.

Companies reporting major news:

National Bank of Canada (TSX:NA). Bank. Up 15 cents, or 0.31 per cent, to $48.90 on 393,848 shares. Canada’s sixth-largest bank is looking to increase revenues by $500 million over the next three years by expanding its reach outside of Quebec and using technology to bolster sales.

TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP). Oil and gas. Up 25 cents, or 0.45 per cent, to $56.25 on 953,890 shares. The company says it expects B.C.’s oil and gas commission to decide soon on two pipeline projects that the company wants to build. One of the projects is a 900-kilometre pipeline to move natural gas from the Montney gas-producing region near Fort St. John, in northeastern B.C., to a connection near a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal near Prince Rupert, B.C.