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Apr 29, 2008 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) -- April 29, 2008 (Financial Wire) Conference calls scheduled at 10 to 10:45 a.m. on Investrend Broadcast via partner BestCalls include Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), Bemis Company Inc. (NYSE: BMS), Carpenter Technology Corporati (NYSE: CRS), Coachmen Industries Inc. (NYSE: COA), Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), Group 1 Automotive Inc. (NYSE: GPI), Hartford Financial Services (NYSE: HIG), LCA-Vision Inc. (NASDAQ: LCAV), Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN), PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PTC), PartnerRe Ltd. (NYSE: PRE), Sauer-Danfoss Inc. (NYSE: SHS), The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG), Sterling Capital Corp. (NYSE: SPR), Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE: VSH), Waste Management Inc. (NYSE: WMI), ICON plc ADR (NASDAQ: ICLR), Tuesday Morning Corporation (NASDAQ: TUES), Heidrick & Struggles Internati (NASDAQ: HSII), SI International Inc. (NASDAQ: SINT), Compass Minerals International (NYSE: CMP), Education Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: EDR), Penson Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN), Lumber Liquidators Inc. (NYSE: LL), AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AG), Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER), Rent-A-Center Inc (NASDAQ: RCII).

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

(By Philip Holmes) Stocks finished mixed on Monday as investors mulled recent moves by Warren "Bubblegum" Buffet and Kirk "Pinto" Kerkorian. They also thought about the immediate future and of Ben "Prime Cut" Bernanke. Investors drove Ford shares up 9% after they learned that the ever humble Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda Corp. planned to buy up to 20% of the company, the automaker who came back from the near dead to post a profit in the recent quarter. Kirk plans buying his stake in Pinto Palace for $8.50 per share. This news was almost enough to call a hasty end to the recession and usher in a new bubble. The chewable kind. Candymaker Mars agreed to buy Wrigley in a deal worth around $23 billion, with Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase funding the deal. All this excitement wasn't enough to spark a rally, though. Investors await rate cut news from the Federal Reserve, which begins a two-day meeting on Tuesday. Cheering us all up in the meantime is BusinessWeek's Ben Steverman, who chronicled the overall drop in stocks that's occurred since October. According to the report over 80% of companies in the S&P 500 index have fallen in value since then. The biggest losers, as you might guess, have been the financial stocks. Bear Stearns famously lost 90% of its value, while National City weighed in with a market cap loss of 76%. Countrywide Financial lost 70.74% and $7.88 billion, while E*Trade Financial lost 70.5% and $4.2 billion. Those are the kind of dogs that really stick to your shoe.

The Investrend Earnings Calendar features Archer Daniels (NYSE: ADM), expected at $0.70 a year ago versus $0.51, Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), expected at $0.44 versus $0.34, Berry Petroleum (NYSE: BRY), expected at $0.81 versus $0.42, Burlington North. (NYSE: BNI), expected at $1.22 versus $1.10.

The Investrend Events Calendar showcases Biotechnology Industry Organization Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing Conference, COH, SWY, ANF, SYY, HLF, WWW, URBN at Lehman Brothers Annual Retail Conference, PHMD at CIT Group Health Care Conference, SMTS, ISCO, NSSI, DJRT, LIVE at LD Micro Conference, WR at Kansas City Better Investing Fair.

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 25 advancers versus 24 decliners and one unchanged. Advancers were led by Wrigley Wm Jr Co (NYSE: WWY) up 23.15%, Sohu.Com Inc (NASDAQ: SOHU) up 14.51%, Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F) up 9.47%, Tenet Hlthcre Cp (NYSE: THC) up 8.24%, Ambac Finl Grp Inc (NYSE: ABK) up 7.77%. There were no significant decliners.

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Quote of the Day: "Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means." Henri Poincare

Today is: Zipper Day.

Happy Birthday: Henri Poincare, William Randolph Hearst, Duke Ellington, Tom Ewell, Celeste Holm, Toots Thielemans, Willie Nelson, Dale Earnhardt, Jerry Seinfeld, Kate Mulgrew, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Jay Cutler.

Today in History: James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia, in 1770. Ernst Werner von Siemens demonstrated the "Elektromote," the forerunner of the trolleybus in Berlin in 1882. Gideon Sindback patented the zipper in 1913. The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by United States troops in 1945. Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) in 1965 successfully launched the seventh rocket in their Rehber series. Roger Clemens set a major league baseball record in 1986 with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.

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