NORTHBROOK, Ill.()--IDEX CORPORATION (NYSE: IEX) announced today that it will broadcast the company’s fourth quarter earnings conference call over the Internet on Thursday, February 5^th at 9:30 a.m. CT. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Kingsley and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Dominic Romeo will discuss the company’s fourth quarter 2008 financial performance and respond to questions from the financial community.

IDEX invites interested investors to listen to the call and view the presentation slides, which will be available on its Web site: www.idexcorp.com. To hear the live call, log on to the site several minutes before the discussion begins. After clicking on the presentation icon, follow the instructions to ensure your system is set up for the event, or download the correct applications at no charge. An archive of the webcast is available through the IDEX site after the call. An audio replay of the call is also...

PHILADELPHIA()--Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE:SUN) announced today that Lynn Elsenhans, the company’s Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President will participate in a panel discussion at the Goldman Sachs Global Energy Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida on Thursday, January 15, 2009. The panel discussion will not be webcast and there will be no formal presentation.

Sunoco, Inc., headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa., is a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products. With 910,000 barrels per day of refining capacity, approximately 4,700 retail sites selling gasoline and convenience items, approximately 5,500 miles of crude oil and refined product owned and operated pipelines and 38 product terminals, Sunoco is one of the largest independent refiner-marketers in the United States. Sunoco is a significant manufacturer of petrochemicals with annual sales of approximately five billion pounds, largely chemical intermediates used to make fibers, ...

NEW YORK()--Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB-' rating to Nevada Power Company d/b/a NV Energy's (NPC) $125 million 7.375% general and refunding mortgage notes, series U, due Jan. 15, 2014. The notes were priced on Jan. 7, 2009 and the transaction is expected to close on Jan. 12, 2009. Proceeds from the issuance will be used to repay amounts outstanding under NPC's revolving credit facility with Wachovia Bank, N.A. The Rating Outlook is Positive.

NPC is a vertically integrated, regulated utility that serves 826,000 electric customers in southern Nevada. NV Energy, Inc. (NVE), NPC's parent company, is also the parent to vertically integrated, regulated utility Sierra Pacific Power Company d/b/a NV Energy (SPPC). Collectively, NPC and SPPC serve nearly 1.2 million electric customers and more than 145,000 natural gas customers throughout Nevada and the Lake Tahoe region in California.

Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are ...