Friday, April 23, 2010

Friday, April 23, 2010

Bsi 2,094.51 +7.43 +.35%

It's hard to believe that just months ago this was a president whose agenda was struggling.



WINNERS

Microsoft (MSFT) .29 +.09 +31.03%

Kudos to the software giant for investing in South Africa.

Microsoft is to invest half a billion rands in small black-owned software development firms in South Africa, the company said Friday.

The deal falls under South Africa's black economic empowerment policies introduced in 2003, to redress apartheid-era laws which barred most black people from any meaningful economic activity.

LOSERS

Nicki Minaj (NMJ) 0.0 0.0 NA

We're sorry, maybe we've been asleep at the wheel or too busy doing grown-up shit, but who the hell is Nicki Minaj? Seriously? Why is she popping up everywhere? Is there like a song or something -- or is she just some scandalous black Paris Hilton type?

Cause when you google her, pretty much everything BUT music comes up. I'm just saying...