text: Equity traders appear to have set a wake-up call for Tuesday after 4 pm as they mark time until Alcoa (AA) kicks off earnings season.
  After last week's 4.6% relief rally on avoiding the dreaded fiscal cliff, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 are off about 0.6% at midday. Attesting to the lack of movement in equities, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) continued to hover near the somnolent 14 level.
  After last week's spurt that left the S&P only 6.7% shy of its record touched in October, 2007, John Stoltzfus, chief investment officer at Oppenheimer Asset Management, advises investors to curb their enthusiasm, for now.
  "We would expect the market to enter a pause and ponder mode before it hurtles much higher. Issues surrounding the debt ceiling as well as the risk of sequestration have rankled the market since the ink began to dry on the bill that averted the fiscal cliff on New Year's night," he writes.