Most actively traded companies on the TSX

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

Toronto Stock Exchange (15,476.94, up 18.48 points):

Element Fleet Management Corp. (TSX:EFN). Financial Services. Down 28 cents, or 2.52 per cent, to $10.82 on 15.6 million shares.

Lydian International Ltd. (TSX:LYD). Miner. Down 1.5 cents, or 4.35 per cent, to 33 cents on 9.1 million shares.

Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX:K). Miner. Down 10 cents, or 1.74 per cent, to $5.64 on 7.9 million shares.

B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO). Miner. Down 11 cents, or 3.27 per cent, to $3.25 on 6.4 million shares.

Eldorado Gold Corp. (TSX:ELD). Miner. Down 10 cents, or 2.13 per cent, to $4.59 on 6.2 million shares.

Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX). Miner. Down 31 cents, or 1.38 per cent, to $22.20 on 4.8 million shares.

Companies reporting major news:

Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Aerospace, rail equipment. Down two cents, or 0.95 per cent, at $2.09 on 2.9 million shares. Quebec’s premier says the province needs to take care of the Montreal-based transportation company because of its unique importance to the province. Philippe Couillard is urging Quebecers to support Bombardier, which has recently faced a strong public backlash over planned hikes to executive pay.

Agrium Inc. (TSX:AGU). Agriculture. Up 68 cents, or 0.54 per cent, at $125.80 on 232,845 shares. A ship carrying phosphate rock from Africa’s Western Sahara is on its way to Canada again after being released by authorities in Panama on the weekend. The ship, carrying ore to be used in an Alberta fertilizer plant owned by Agrium, was detained by court order last week in connection with a dispute over the Western Sahara, a territory controlled by Morocco but claimed by the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic or SADR.