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Well, third straight day of solid gains on Wall Streets. Stephanie Elam is in New York, with a look at the markets and the rest of our business headlines. You are bringing us good luck/, Stephanie?

I am bringing you at least good news, I know you are fond of good luck, but good news. We will take that, right? Well, it has to do with inflation, and it sparked today's rally. The consumer price index actually jumped seven tenth of a percent in May. But investors're focused on what is known as the core, rate. That strips out the volt of food and energy sectors, and it showed a minimum increase of just one tenth of a percent. That indicates that the big jump in food and energy this year is not spilling over to other sectors of the economy. So let’s take a look at the numbers as they finally settled down. Here the Dow up 85 points, up better than half a percent at 13639. The Nasdaqu better by 27 points, that's enough to push it over a gain of one percent. And the S&P 500, up 9 points, and that's solidly above half a percentage gain there as well. Now, taking a look at the Dow and the S&P, which have set a series of record highs / recently. The NSDAC is still 48 percent below the record it set way back in March of 2000, just before the internet bubble burst. So while we are saying some gains, / still, you know, it’s not dot. Com Day.

You gotta to keep it sober, don’t you?

I have to, I got to keep everything, you know, within realm of reality.

OK, we appreciate that. Drug stores and diet pills. There is a news out there, not necessarily new news though, is it?

Well, right. This is, it’s called Alli. Some people have heard of it. And it’s the first over-the-counter weight loss supplement approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Retailers across the country began offering the drug today. So this is the first time we can actually get it. And some early reports indicate the product is practically flying off the show. No surprise there. The pill is made by Glaccisl Smith client which also sells the prescription version of the pill, which is Zeneca. So it’s not really new, but this is the over-the-counter version. The drug maker is so exited about the over-the-counter version, it is spending a reported 150 million dollars on advertising. The drug sells for approximately a dollar eighty a day. Experts have taken a wait-and-see approach regarding the diet drug. Some are skeptical about how effective an over-the counter-version of the prescription drug will be. Alli is supposed to work by blocking the amount of fat absorbed by the bodies. So maybe if you / cut out one of those coffee drinks a day. It will be cheaper for you to take the diet pill. I don't know.

That's right. Diet pill economics, so Stephanie Elam. Tie there.

It’s going to be my podcast.

Speak of / podcast, let’s talk. We can’t have a discussion, right? As we walk up to the introduction of the Iphone on the 29th, I think we've got like 15 days. So we, I understand we've got another i-phone angle. It’s not onlynecessarily a winner for Apple, but also AT&T.

Right, this is all i-phone, all the time for Richard. And if the i-phone is as big a success as many analysts excepted to be. AT&T will be a big winner. In order to get phones at risk, yeah, you have to subscribe to AT&T's wireless service. And that does not seem to be scaring away potential customers. A pair of new survey shows that about two thirds of mobile phone users who are interested in buying the i-phone are not AT&T/ customers now, but would be willing to make the switch. Emmatric says, T mobile has the most to be worried about, since it has a lot of subscribers who are under the age of 25. And of course, that’s likely to be a big i-phone customer base. The two versions of the i-phone will cost either 499$ or 599$, all about storage there. Still Apple expects to sell 10 million of the devices by the end of next year. I can pretty much guarantee that one will be going out in 15 days, to my friend Richard.

If I say it enough, I am hoping, I am hoping here, Stephanie, that something will happen. You got a big plan for the weekend?

I do, I am going home to California.

I am too. We will see there.

You are?

Yes, I am. Ma'am

Ok, I will look for you.

We will talk later.

Ok.

Alright, Stephanie Elam in New York, thanks again.

Have a good one.

You too.

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