NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market stabilized Monday as investors looked for cheap stocks after a four-week losing streak.

The Dow Jones industrial average gave up a 200-point rally and was up 45 points by late afternoon. Compared with the wild swings of earlier this month, Monday's trading was relatively calm.

Hewlett-Packard Co. rose 4 percent, the most of the 30 large companies in the Dow Jones industrial average. H-P sank 20 percent on Friday after saying it planned to sell its PC business and stop selling other products.

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