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Blue chips rallied near midday Tuesday after a volatile morning, as investors considered Hewlett-Packard's strong forecast and Congressional hearings on the $700 billion bank bailout and the automaker sector.

Stocks trimmed morning gains near midday Thursday, as the impact from a global market advance eased amid still-present recession fears.

The Dow is down just 28 points, to 10,993, as this gets typed at midday Friday. Maybe everyone who wanted to head to the exits already has.

In meantime, the dysfunction on Wall Street should redound to New York’s advantage — in technology.

Falling oil prices and rebounding bank shares helped fire up a stock market rally near midday Friday, as investors eyed a stronger dollar and speculation that Lehman Brothers could be a takeover candidate.

Around midday Wednesday, Round Rock police received a call of a man in his 50s holed up in a strip mall.

Double latte in the morning, soda with lunch, energy drink at midday. Sound familiar? Americans are consuming caffeinated beverages as never before.

In fact, energy drink sales skyrocketed in 2007. All this caffeine consumption has given rise to growing numbers of "caffeinated moms."

Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce a major reorganization of its research arm, HP Labs, on Thursday, according to a MarketWatch report.

HP indeed has a midday press conference planned at HP Labs in Palo Alto this Thursday, but so far the company has been tight-lipped about what exactly it has ...

Quick thinking from an involved citizen resulted in the arrest of two suspects for a midday bank robbery in the 13,000 block of N. I-35.

Liquor makers and restaurants in China have taken a financial hit now that Communist Party leaders can't get drunk at lunch.

A Chinese province banned party officials and civil servants from midday drinking on work days.

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