MORNING UPDATE: Mankus-Lavelle Group issues alerts for NVDA, AMLN, STX, UNH, and FD

CHICAGO, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Mankus-Lavelle Group issues the following Morning Update at 8:30 AM EDT with new PriceWatch Alerts for key stocks.

Before the open... PriceWatch Alerts for NVDA, AMLN, STX, UNH, and FD, Market Overview, Today's Economic Calendar, and the Quote Of The Day.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Having emptied their wallets in April, consumers took a bit of a vacation in May and retailers felt the pain."

-- Joel Naroff, chief economist, Naroff Economic Advisors. New PriceWatch Alerts for NVDA, AMLN, STX, UNH, and FD... PRICEWATCH ALERTS - HIGH RETURN COVERED CALL OPTIONS ----------- -- NVIDIA Corp. Last Price 26.91 - SEP 25.00 CALL OPTION@ $3.30 -> 5.9 % Return assigned* -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Last Price 18.66 - OCT 15.00 CALL OPTION@ $4.50 -> 5.9 % Return assigned* -- Seagate Technology Last Price 20.14 - JUL 20.00 CALL OPTION@ $0.90 -> 4.0 % Return assigned* -- UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Last Price 51.66 - SEP 50.00 CALL OPTION@ $3.70 -> 4.3 % Return assigned* -- Federated Dept. Stores Last Price 74.50 - AUG 75.00 CALL OPTION@ $3.10 -> 5.0 % Return assigned*

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NEWS LEADERS AND LAGGARDS

So far today, Tribune Co, Microsoft Corp, and Ace Ltd lead the list of companies with the most news stories while CSX Corp and DHB Industries Inc are showing a spike in news. JPMorgan Chase and Co, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, and Cisco Systems Inc have the highest srtIndex scores to top the list of companies with positive news while Pier 1 Imports Inc and Metris Companies Inc lead the list of companies with negative news reports. Bear Stearns Companies Inc has popped up with a high positive news sraIndex score.

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MARKET OVERVIEW

Overseas trading has improved this morning with eight of the 15 markets we follow in the green. The cumulative average return on the group is a 0.112- percent gain. In Asia, the Nikkei tacked on 0.71 percent and the Hang Seng inched 0.06 percent higher. Trading is currently mixed in Europe, with the French CAC 40 adding 0.12 percent while both the FTSE 100 and the German Dax are in the negative zone.

Futures are slightly higher this morning, pointing to a positive start to the session as investors await the release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) along with a scattering of other economic reports. Today could prove to be a busy day, with the release of industrial production and capacity utilization numbers. Furthermore, at 2 p.m. Eastern time, investors will get a peek at the Fed's Beige Book.

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DYNAMIC MARKET OPPORTUNITIES

American retail sales experienced their first slide since August 2004. The Commerce Department reported today that sales dipped 0.5% in May - the biggest since downturn since June 2004 - and more than double expectations that called for a more tepid 0.2% fall. A 1.6% drop in auto spending accounted for a sizeable chunk of the decline, possibly due to higher gasoline prices discouraging folks from buying the more gas-thirsty vehicles on the market. A drop was bound to occur sooner or later and at the 247Profits investment group, the editors don't think means anything more sinister than just a simple monthly fall. Consumer spending is still expected to rise 3.2% this year. And while higher energy prices might be persuading consumers to restrain spending as they channel funds to pay for household bills instead, at least energy stocks are helping to prop up the Dow Industrials and the S&P 500. Perhaps investors are now more comfortable with high oil prices. But that still doesn't protect the economy from further damage from high energy costs. The same theory that applies to crude oil prices applies to stock prices - that is, a "fear" premium. It remains to be seen what kind of effect crude oil prices will ultimately have on the US economy. Over in Europe, soon after a report in German magazine Stern that the German government has allegedly discussed scrapping the euro in favor on returning to the Deutschmark (ministers apparently blame the euro for a sizeable chunk of the country's economic woes and Stern cited a poll that says half the German population want to revert back to their old currency), word from Italy that the country's Welfare Minister is proposing a referendum about abandoning the euro and reintroducing the lira. Like with Germany, there's probably little chance of this coming to fruition. But they might have a point. The euro looks forlorn at the moment. Even European Union president Jean-Claude Juncker is calling it overvalued compared to the US dollar. Juncker continued to say that he'd quit as Luxembourg's prime minister if Luxembourg doesn't approve the EU constitution.

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TODAY'S ECONOMIC CALENDAR 7:00 A.M. June 11 MBA Refinancing Index 8:30 A.M. June Empire State Mfg Index 8:30 A.M. April Business Inventories 8:30 A.M. May Consumer Price Index (CPI) 8:30 A.M. May CPI, ex-food and energy 9:00 A.M. April Treasury Intl Capital Flows 9:15 A.M. May Industrial Production 9:15 A.M. April Capacity Utilization 1:00 P.M. May NAHB Housing Market 2:00 P.M. Federal Reserve Beige Book 7:30 P.M. Boston Fed Pres Minehan gives welcoming remarks at Boston Fed healthcare conference in Chatham, Mass.

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