With a little more than a week remaining in the trading year, the Toronto Stock Exchange is reporting a record for new listings in 2005. As of the close of business December 21, there have been 217 new listings – beating the previous record of 204 set last year.

“We have seen strong listings activity across all sectors,” said Rik Parkhill, senior vp, Toronto Stock Exchange. “We are the seventh largest exchange in the world in terms of domestic market capitalization and we are world leaders in mining and energy listings and financing.”

Of the new TSX issuers, 132 were Initial Public Offerings and 46 were graduates from TSX Venture Exchange. One hundred and thirty-four of the new listings are classified as Industrials, 42 as oil and gas and 41 mining issuers.

There have been 97 structured products listed on TSX so far in 2005 – 56 of these were investment funds or split share corporations, one Exchange Traded Fund and 41 income trusts.