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.
"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863