Most actively traded companies on the TSX

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

Toronto Stock Exchange (12,073.46, down 262.57 points):

Pacific Exploration & Production Corp. (TSX:PRE). Oil and gas. Down 31 cents, or 39.24 per cent, to 48 cents on 10.1 million shares.

Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Financial Services. Down 78 cents, or 4.14 per cent, to $18.04 on 9.9 million shares.

Anderson Energy Inc. (TSX:AXL). Energy. Down half-a-cent, or 50 per cent, to half-a-cent on 9.8 million shares.

Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD). Bank. Down $1.84, or 3.59 per cent, to $49.45 on 8.7 million shares.

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM). Miner. Down 29 cents, or 8.58 per cent, to $3.09 on 8.3 million shares.

Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX). Miner. Up 59 cents, or 5.41 per cent, to $11.49 on 7.9 million shares.

Companies reporting major news:

Torstar Corp. (TSX:TS.B). Publishing. Up 15 cents, or 6.12 per cent, to $2.60 on 86,695 shares. The company that owns Canada’s largest circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, is laying off more than 300 production and editorial employees in the latest downsizing move in the hard-hit industry. The bulk of the job losses come from a plan by Torstar to sell its Toronto-area printing plant and outsource the work to Transcontinental (TSX:TCL.A) (up 57 cents, or 3.50 per cent, to $16.84 on 353,433 shares), the country’s largest commercial printing company.