Fairfax, Manitoba Telecom, Open Text: Canadian Equity Preview

The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in Canadian markets. The preview includes news that broke after markets closed. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names and prices are from the last close.

The Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index fell 252.46, or 1.7 percent, to 14,372.54 in Toronto.

Canfor Corp. (CFP CN): Canada's largest producer of softwood lumber reported its third straight quarterly loss as a slump in homebuilding squeezed demand and the rising Canadian dollar reduced the value of U.S. sales. Canfor fell 18 cents, or 2.1 percent, to C$8.57.

Catalyst Paper Corp. (CTL CN): The newsprint maker reported a third-quarter loss of 8 cents a share excluding some items, more than the 17-cent average loss estimate from analysts in a Bloomberg survey. The shares were unchanged at C$1.42 after falling 60 percent this year.

Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (FFH CN): The insurer had third-quarter earnings of C$13.47 a share before one-time gains and losses. That beat the C$8.26 average estimate of two analysts in a Bloomberg survey. The shares gained C$4.68, or 1.8 percent, to C$265.98.

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MBT CN): Canada's third- largest phone-service provider said net income rose 12 percent after trimming expenses and adding mobile-phone and Internet subscribers. The shares fell 9 cents, or 0.2 percent, to C$46.91.

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