BDC Weekly Roundup 4/18/2011

The BDCR Index continued the downward slide this past week by an amount of -1.17% from a level of 324.75 on 4/8/2011 to 321.00 for the week ending 4/15/2011. The major winners were CODI (+1.14%) and FSC (+1.15%) and the major losers were HTGC (-6.18%) and KCAP (-4.67%).

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News:
ARCC - Closes an $86.5 mm investment
BKCC - Motley Fool calls BKCC a "perfect stock" and gives it a 7 out of 10 score. Wow. - http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/04/15/is-blackrock-kelso-capital-the-perfect-stock.aspx
FSC - Closes convertible offering, CEO Leonard M. Tannenbaum purchases $2m in concurrent private offering.
GAIN - Ups dividend by 12.5% - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gladstone-Investment-prnews-3583817188.html?x=0&.v=1
HTGC - Joins the convertible party with a $75 million senior notes offering. Changes articles of incorporation to increase maximum share issuance from 60mm to 100mm.
TTO - Downgraded by Ladenburg Thalmann