Mid-Afternoon Market Update: Markets Roughly Flat; Dycom Sees a Boost

Toward the end of trading Tuesday, the Dow traded down 0.13 percent to 12,779.14 while the NASDAQ fell 0.16 percent to 2,911.36. The S&P also fell, decreasing 0.06 percent to 1,386.12. Top Headline Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) reported earnings this morning, but what caught traders' attention was the $8.8 billion