I think the US equity market is in for a stiff correction sometime in the first quarter. It will probably be tied in with the debt ceiling fandango.
Alcoa put in respectable results after the bell.
Behind the concrete, the visible events, behind all the objective, logical considerations, we find the struggle against evil, against the servants of the antichrist. Everywhere and always demonic powers lurk in the dark, waiting for the moment when man is weak. When he yields to the forces of evil, he separates himself from the power of a higher order; after taking the first step, he is driven on and on to the next and to the next, at a furiously accelerating rate.
Die Weiße Rose, 1942