The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Same-Store Sales from Wal-Mart or AOL Rumors

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• Disappointing same-store sales from Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)...
• Rumors that Yahoo (YHOO) has approached Time Warner (TWX) in regard to buying America Online...
• Better-than-expected earnings from Verizon Communications (VZ)...
• Chatter about oil's drop back below 60...
• This cover story [subscription required] from Barron's that looks at the tech sector and offers upbeat comments on stocks such as McAfee (MFE), KLA-Tencor, (KLAC), ASML Holding (ASML), Cymer (CYMI), Synopsys (SNPS), Symantec (SYMC), and Seagate (STX) while offering skepticism on Dell (DELL), The Knot (KNOT), WebMD (WBMD), and American Power Conversion (APCC)
• The buyout of American Power Conversion Corp. (APCC) by a French firm Schneider Electric...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is - Country fail to embrace hugs from strangers...apparently the "Chinese appear not to have warmed to a 'free hugs' campaign aimed at cheering up strangers by hugging them on the street"...really?!?!...you mean people find it uncomfortable to have strangers run up to the on the street and try to touch them?...shocking...