- Remarks that the lending programs are safe for balance sheet

Americas Macro sector headlines

• Today 06:30am
  (CL) Chile Dec Trade balance: -$224M v $129.0Me- Total Exports: $3.63B v $4.35B prior - Total Imports: $3.85B v 3.67B prior
  
• Today 06:17am
  Discover Dec US Spending monitor falls 3.1 points to 76.6
  
• Today 05:00am
  *(BR) BRAZIL DEC FGV INFLATION IGP: -0.44% V -0.17%E- No revisions
  
• XOM Today 01:29am
  Exxon Mobil Corp "Heard on the Street" is overall Positive on large oil companies - WSJ- The oil boom left the six largest integrated oil companies with aggregate net debt of just $34B at the end of Q3 and that more...
  
• Today 00:41am
  (US) President-elect Obama plans to offer states $7B as an incentive to permanently change their unemployment-insurance laws to cover part-time workers - WSJ- Obama is also looking to prevent other more...