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8 unusual facts about Toronto Stock Exchange


Bowflex

Bowflex of America changed its name to Bowflex, Inc, and became a public company on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

David John Pearson

After developing a portfolio of successful workstation products and a rich portfolio of blue-chip clients, Pearson as President and CEO took the company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1983, at that time one of the youngest companies ever to go public on the TSX.

Exchange-traded fund

A similar product, Toronto Index Participation Shares, started trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) in 1990.

Ferranti-Packard 6000

Over the next year they sold one to the Defence Research Establishment Atlantic, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and the other to the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

Hibernia Networks

On September 30, 2010, Hibernia announced at the Toronto Stock Exchange Opening Bell, and as well in The Wall Street Journal, its plans for a new transatlantic cable, Project Express, to be built from the NY metro area to Slough in London, with less than 60 ms of delay.

IShares

The following stock exchanges list iShares funds: London Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, BATS Exchange, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, Australian Securities Exchange and several European and Asian stock exchanges.

Ormat Industries

The company is based in Calgary and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Tom Casten

He served until 2006 as founding chair and CEO of Primary Energy and its subsidiary Primary Energy Recycling Corp., which is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.


Canadian Natural Resources

Canadian Natural's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CNQ and under the Toronto Stock Exchange as CNQ and CNQ.U which denotes trading in US funds.

Donald K. Johnson

He is a past board member of the National Ballet of Canada, the Bishop Strachan School Foundation, and was Chairman of the Investment Dealers Association and a Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

F9 Financial Reporting

F9 - The Financial Reporter was originally developed by Synex Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Synex International (Symbol SXI, TSX) and first released in 1988 for Accpac as a Lotus 1-2-3 Add-in for DOS and subsequently F9 was developed for the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Platform.

Kaboose

On February 14, 2006, the Company graduated to the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") from the TSX Venture Exchange and officially began trading on the TSX.

Sharon Hayes

Hayes is a graduate of the Honours Math and Computer Science program at the University of Waterloo; while enrolled there, she worked as a co-op student with the Toronto Stock Exchange and IBM.


see also

BNK

Bankers Petroleum (Toronto Stock Exchange symbol), a Canadian oil company