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.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero