Hewlett-Packard Co. ( HPQ ) launched a tablet computer that runs Microsoft Windows and is targeted at business customers, Reuters reports. "The banking sector, mortgages, inflation in emerging markets, deflation here, a mini-currency crisis -- those issues are weighing on everybody's minds." In the latest earnings news: --Baidu.com Inc ( BIDU ) is rising on Nasdaq after the Chinese Internet group reported third quarter results that beat expectations and a number of brokerages raised their price targets for the company.