[originaltext] Well, Toyota really appears to be on the verge of becoming No.

Well, Toyota really appears to be on the verge of becoming No. 1 worldwide.  Now the Japanese automaker has been ramping up production for next year, planning to produce 9.4 million vehicles. That’s 4% more than this year, and it is apparently lifting it right past General Motors.  GM hasn’t given a production target for next year, but it has been forced to slash jobs, scale back on production after seeing its market share eroded by Asian automakers. GM has been the global leader for many decades. Now Toyota stock closed up nearly 1.5% , but it was a very different story for the rest of the market. There was no Santa Claus rally after a surprise decline in orders for durable goods. The Dow Industrials, as you see, with this shot of the Big Board at the New York Stock Exchange fell 78 points. The NASDAQ Composite lost about two-thirds of a percent. Trading volume was very light and the market will be closed on Monday, Christmas day. Typical of the day Research in Motion initially rose on a positive earnings report. The maker of the Blackberry wireless e-mail devices posted a 47% increase in quarterly profits, but by the end of the day, shares were down nearly 3%.