As a reminder, this Friday January 16 is options expiration.
Also, US markets will be closed on Monday January 19 for the Martin Luther King national holiday.
The markets will be open on Tuesday January 20 which is the Inauguration Day for the incoming President Barack Obama.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception