Wall Street was mixed with low volumes of trading Friday with major U.S. markets struggling to end in positive territory for the week. Futures for the S&P 500 were virtually unchanged before the bell,

Reuters forecasts a rise in Japan’s total trade balance for January to 2,100.5 billion yen ($138.1 million), from 130.9 billion yen the month before.

Microsoft was the strongest force pushing the S&P 500 upward. It rose 1.3% after saying it had developed what it calls the world’s first “quantum processing unit,” which cou