United Technologies Corp. (UTX)

Throw away the economics textbooks, they are not working.

The odds of a Fed December rate cut are now very low. I think the marketplace handles that just fine, as long as the statement with this week's expected cut does not sound too tough, or too cautious.

Most important is that the Fed felt the need earlier this week to expand it's minimum offering for overnight repo operations, while also increasing the 14 day repos.

There is a chance that Presidents Trump and Xi sign something when they meet up at the APEC summit this November in Santiago, Chile.

Let's see how the charts are positioned ahead of the earnings report.

The Trump and Xi administrations are at least looking at the same page. That's more than nothing.

Let's review the charts and indicators to see what they are showing today.

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The fact is that there are several highly significant barriers with China still to be satisfactorily addressed before any real progress might be realized.

Plus, defense contractors remain stocks to own as geopolitical risk isn't going away.

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Algorithmic traders, along with the Chinese and the Saudis, will feel the outcome of the oil attacks.

There is no denying that markets got ugly over the last 30 minutes or so of the Thursday session.

Positive headlines aren't turning into sustained gains, making traders think twice.

Also, defense industry names can breathe easier with word of debt ceiling and federal spending deal.

UTX's indicators look mixed and Tuesday's earnings could tip the scales.

Here are defense companies to watch as the U.S. responds to offensive threats posed by China and Russia.

Preventing the U.S. dollar from appreciating too aggressively while repairing credit conditions are 'job freaking one'.

What started as a 'small step' 50 years ago this weekend has launched a journey that's really now taking shape in ways never before believed -- for the military, potential civilian travel and coming investor opportunities.

After the week's Fed speak, CPI data for June arrives on Thursday.

Talks between Washington and Beijing unlikely to end tariffs, but what would be worse? If the Fed chief dropped his guard on a single tweet.

My thesis all along has been that an attempt to normalize the yield curve must be made, therefore I would choose to be proactive.

FedEx's rise on bad news and Facebook's fall on the same are two examples of how it's hard to figure out when enough's enough.

The endless rally needs fuel, and without it, you end up with what you got Tuesday, a soggy session that was hit from the cloud, Beyond Meat's chill, and big merger uncertainties.

If the United Technologies/Raytheon deal makes any smaller defense name attractive, it might be this one.