At the halfway point of the trading day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
The market is largely unchanged as investors wait on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. The court will rule Wednesday as to whether the European Stability Mechanism, or ESM, should be stopped while the court considers its legality. The ESM is a 500 billion euro fund to bail out EU states in trouble. The ESM was supposed to go into effect in July but can't start until Germany ratifies it.
While the Dow is largely unchanged, many stocks are up.
Today's Dow leaders
Today's Dow leader is Hewlett-Packard
Today's No. 2 Dow stock is Alcoa
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