The interview of the day is with Dmitry Medvedev. Russia’s president-elect talks in depth with FT editor Lionel Barber about the social and economic course for Russia.

And the Winners Are…

The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 86 winners and 17 losers.

The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column headers to sort the list. Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million).

Media Digest

• Sovereign wealth funds an opportunity, not a threat
  (Editor: While most have focused on the gloom and doom projected by the OECD, they forgot to mention the thumbs up for SWFs.) At the same time, the fact that SWFs are controlled by foreign governments has raised questions in recipient countries regarding their intentions and investment objectives and possible risks for national security. Most OECD countries have one or more investment measures designed to safeguard national security. A handful of OECD countries formally identify foreign government control as a factor in deciding whether to authorise inward investment. But national security should not be a cover for protectionism, and OECD countries have agreed to use the security argument with restraint. They have decided that any restrictions designed to protect national security should be transparent, subject to accountability, proportional to the objective pursued and used only as a last resort.
• Simons, Mandel Post Biggest Drop in Hedge Fund Slump
  Hedge-fund titans James Simons and Stephen Mandel are showing the biggest losses of their careers in the $1.9 trillion industry’s worst start in more than a decade.
• Starbucks’ New Brew
  In a move to revive its U.S. sales and its floundering stock, the coffee giant is launching a new, everyday coffee called Pike Place Roast. Howard Schultz, chairman & founder of Starbucks, discusses the launch with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo.
• The New Gold Rush
  Gold may be off its recent highs, but the soaring price of the precious metal has sparked a new gold rush, reports CNBC’s Jane Wells
• The bust begins
  FOR years the housing market in Britain has defied gravity. For a few months in 2004 and 2005 house prices moderated, before taking off again. But now, finally, tighter credit and overstretched household budgets are pulling prices down.
• Paulson Urges Congress to Pass Colombia Free-Trade Pact
  U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks at the Inter-American Development Bank’s annual meeting in Miami about the outlook for the U.S. economy, benefits of integration between national and regional markets, and the need for Congress to pass a free-trade agreement with Colombia.
• The New Gold Rush
  Affluent Americans go to new lengths to cash in on gold, with CNBC’s Melissa Lee
• Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis
  Sir Howard Davies, who heard the warning about CDOs in Alsace in 2000, first warned the City about the toxic nature of some financial instruments in January 2002, when he was chairman of the FSA. . . . Six years on, Davies is director of the London School of Economics and modest about his ability to claim that he was one of the first to foresee the events of the summer of 2007, when these CDOs proved their toxicity. He refuses to identify the banker and launches into a lengthy description of what was worrying him. The distilled version is that insurance companies were buying products they did not understand because they were attracted by the higher returns on offer. Little attention was paid to any potential risk because the rewards were so attractive. He describes the buyers of these CDOs as “naive capital”.
• Measuring the Economy
  Discussing the economic slowdown, with Martin Feldstein, The National Bureau of Economic Research president/CEO and CNBC’s Steve Liesman
• Greenspan’s Comments on US Economy
  Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said recently the US housing crisis was not his, nor the Fed’s fault. George Magnus, senior economic advisor for UBS considers Greenspan’s comments.
• The view from afar
  The thrills and spills of the presidential primaries in America are captivating audiences far beyond its shores. And not unreasonably so: whoever makes it to the White House will influence far more than America. In particular many in the Middle East are engrossed in the American campaign.
• Stars in their eyes
  With the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Soviet Union kick-started the space race with America in earnest, but when the cold war ended America’s lead was cemented. A new report by Futron, a technology consultancy, underlines America’s dominance. Futron’s space-competitiveness index ranks the nine leading countries, plus Europe, in space technology according to 40 measures in government spending, human expertise and the private sector. Europe benefits from its joint policy and the expertise of multinational companies, while China and India are using their economic clout to become bigger players.