 For the Wall Street Business Report, I'm Rich Thomason. And at midday on Wall Street, the Dow is fractionally higher, 24 points higher, 39,142. Standard & Poor's up a point, 54.61. NASDAQ is up a third of a percent, 54 points to 17,788, while the small-cap Russell 2000 stocks are down 18 points, almost 1% lower, to 2,028.