The FirstAlert(tm) Economics Calendar lists Housing Starts & Building Permits for August (8:30 am ET); Weekly Chain Store Sales (8:55 am ET); FOMC Meeting – Policy Announcement (2:15 pm ET).

The FirstAlert(tm) Events Calendar showcases SIRO, TMO and SGEN at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference; SLW, SWC and GRS at the Denver Gold Group Forum; SWKS Analyst Meeting; T, YHOO and AMT at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XIX Conference; XL, PRE and ALTE at the Macquarie Securities Bermuda in Boston Conference.

The FirstAlert(tm) Earnings Calendar highlights AutoZone Inc. (AZO) Q4 2010 earnings release and earnings conference call; DeaLogic Holdings (DELGF.PK) Q2 2010 earnings release; Minerva plc (MNR.L) Preliminary 2010 earnings release; Progress Software Corp. (PRGS) Q3 2010 earnings release.

FirstAlert(tm) Website of the Day: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/equinox.html

Quote of the Day: "It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be." — Virgil (10/15/0070 – 09/21/0019 BC), Roman writer.

Word of the Day:  imago \ih-MAH-goh\, noun: 1. An idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life. 2. Entomology. An adult insect.

In context: “She pictured him retaining, year after year, her imago in his heart, as strongly as his was impressed upon her own at that moment.” — Ellen Wallace, King's Cope: a novel.

(Imago is a term that originated in psychoanalysis but migrated into popular usage in the 20th Century.)

Today is: World Alzheimer’s Day

Tomorrow is: The Autumnal Equinox (Sep. 22, 2010; 11:09 PM EDT)

Happy Birthday: 1941 – R. James Woolsey, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency director, 1947 – Stephen King, American author; 1949 – Artis Gilmore, American basketball player; 1957 – Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia.

Today in History: 1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter; 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice; 1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993; 2008 – Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.

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