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FirstAlert: 6-8 P.M. Investrend / Bestcalls

February 18, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- Conference calls scheduled at 6 to 8 p.m. on Investrend Broadcast via partner BestCalls include Santos Limited ADR (NASDAQ: STOSY), Parker Drilling Company (NYSE: PKD), Longtop Financial Technologies (NYSE: LFT), Baidu Inc.ADR (NASDAQ: BIDU).

Conference calls are often impacted by market trends, geopolitical conditions, news coming from conferences and economic releases.

Small-town Muscle The world is hurting. The news is full of doom and gloom about the stock market's roller coaster ride to last century. The president signed his massive bill to jumpstart the economy, but it's already being called not enough. Even Letterman wants to know what happened to the money. In a column today by Dr. Joe Duarte, we find the answer is being overlooked: Small towns. Read Duarte's "Tales from the Road" to find out how small towns are answer.

The Investrend Earnings Calendar features Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP), expected at $0.37; Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), expected at $1.34; Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), expected at $0.22; Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), expected at $0.93.

The Investrend Economics Calendar lists International Trade for December (8:30 a.m.), Treasury Sect. Geithner Speaks (10 a.m.), EIA Petroleum Status Report (10:30 a.m.), Treasury auctions 10-year notes (1 p.m.), Treasury Budget Statement for January (2 p.m.).

The Investrend Events Calendar showcases AGU, IPI, MON, POT, MOS at Morgan Stanley Global Basic Materials Conference; DEJ, SSN, NOG, DNE at Independent Petroleum Association of America OGIS Florida Conference; HYGS, CREE, JASO, ENSL at Kaufman Bros. Green Technology Conference; ISRG, ALGN, N, ACTU at Roth Capital Partners Annual OC Growth Stock Conference; K, MO, HNZ, FO, MKC at Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference; MAT at Toy Industry Association Toy Fair; NPO, CR, FLS, BEZ at Gabelli & Company Pump, Valve & Motor Symposium; UNT, GOK, END, PKD at The Oil & Services Conference.

The Investrend Money Index is an indicator of the depth of market direction or indirection. While not always including the same stocks, the NYSE/NASDAQ 50 Most Actives indicate the direction in which the mass of money is flowing. Last session's trading showed four advancers versus 46 decliners. Advancers were led by Ultrashort Financial (NYSE: SKF) up 16.20%, Pt Ultrshrt Sp500 Ps (NYSE: SDS) up 8.61%. Decliners followed Financial Bull 3x (NYSE: FAS) down 24.32%, Huntington Bancshares Incorpora (NASDAQ: HBAN) down 22.49%, Powershares Db Crude (NYSE: DXO) down 17.80%, Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) down 16.50%, Ultra Financials Pro (NYSE: UYG) down 16.44%, Dryships Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) down 15.55%, Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) down 13.82%, Us Bancorp (NYSE: USB) down 13.47%, Wells Fargo & Co New (NYSE: WFC) down 13.13%, Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) down 12.32%, Jp Morgan Chase Co (NYSE: JPM) down 12.31%, Bk Of America Cp (NYSE: BAC) down 12.03%, Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) down 9.46%, Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) down 9.16%, Companhia Vale Ads (NYSE: RIO) down 9.07%, Ultra S&P500 Proshrs (NYSE: SSO) down 8.56%, U.S. Oil Fund Etf (NYSE: USO) down 8.36%, Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) down 8.07%, Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) down 7.98%, Proshares Ultra Qqq (NYSE: QLD) down 7.58%, Ishares Tr Ftse Indx (NYSE: FXI) down 7.12%, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) down 6.39%, Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) down 6.03%.

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Quote of the Day: "Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best friend is still a nearsighted man." Yoko Ono

Today is: Gambian Independence Day

Happy Birthday: Alessandro Volta, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Adolphe Menjou, Edward Arnold, Wendell Willkie, Jack Palance, Bill Cullen, George Kennedy, Yoko Ono, Judy Rankin, Dennis DeYoung, Cybill Shepherd, Juice Newton, John Travolta, Vanna White, Molly Ringwald.

Today in History: The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate began in 1841 and lasted until March 11. In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated in 1861 as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. John Tunstall was murdered in 1878 by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published for the first time in 1885. The first official flight with air mail took place in 1911 in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivered 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away. The first Academy Awards were announced in 1929. In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only recorded time in history.

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