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.
"Day by day the money-masters of America draw together, they grow more class-conscious, more aggressive. Political corruption was the buying up of legislatures and assemblies to keep them from doing the people's will and protecting the people's interests; it was the exploiter entrenching himself in power, it was financial autocracy undermining and destroying political democracy. By the blindness and greed of ruling classes the people have been plunged into infinite misery." Upton Sinclair