Shares of BCE Inc. BCE, -0.61% slipped 0.61% to C$60.00 Thursday, in what proved to be an otherwise all-around favorable trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE, +0.06% rising 0.06% to 20,027.35. BCE Inc. closed C$6.05 short of its 52-week high (C$66.05), which the company reached on August 19th. Trading volume of 3.2 M shares eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.8 M.