RAI made headlines this week by announcing the planned launch of the Revo, a “safe” cigarette that heats tobacco rather than burning it. PM has a similar product in the works for sale overseas.

Earnings also improved 10.5% year over year backed by higher cigarette and moist snuff pricing, which more than offset increased investment in the Vuse brand of e-cigarettes.

Every day I try to post on my blog a few of the technical indicators and chart of a few of the most popular stocks. Today's list includes Netflix (NFLX), Intel (INTC) and Altria (MO).

Large Caps seem to be the only segment of the market that is presently having any staying power. I wanted to find some large caps that still had their momentum.

A lot of the stock prognosticators are claiming that money is flowing from shaky emerging markets and small caps back to big "quality" large caps. So which are they?

With earnings season currently in full swing, investors have turned most of their attention to quarterly reports, and crunching profit and revenue numbers.