NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street headed for a mixed open on the final trading day of the year, but it appears that a raucous 2012 will close in the black.
Positive jobs numbers on Thursday and potentially promising data from the housing market were followed Friday by news from Ford, which reported that auto sales this year topped 2 million. That is the first time that’s happened since the economic collapse began in 2007.
Oil prices slipped, but a barrel of crude is still trading around $99.
There were no major economic reports scheduled for Friday, and
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