24/7 Wall St. will look at the Twitter posts at Reuters Biz, WSJ, Financial Times, CNN Money, MarketWatch, CNBC, and 24/7 Wall St. each day to see which stocks are most frequently mentioned. It is clear that in this area of social media these tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Together, these financial sites are followed by nearly 1,000,000 Twitter users, which makes them a sizeable sample of Wall St.’s interests. In some cases, we will publish the actual tweets from the sites
FT: Latest fundraising values Twitter at $3.7bn: Twitter’s latest fundraising has valued the company at $3.7bn, up s…http://bit.ly/e48OpM
FT: BP sued in $21bn US Gulf spill action: Eric Holder, US attorney-general: ‘We intend to prove these defendants ar…http://bit.ly/dFkwcp
MarketWatch: Jobless claims fall 3000 to 420000 – MarketWatch http://bit.ly/hePDdp
MarketWatch: FedEx profit falls 18% on higher costs – MarketWatchhttp://bit.ly/hdczTG
CNN Money: Housing starts fell 5.8% to 555,000 annual rate in November; building permits decline 14.7% to 530,000 annual rate, government says. $$
CNN Money: Number of people filing for initial unemployment benefits fell 3,000 to 420,000 in the latest week, the government says. $$
CNN Money: Record plunge in foreclosures, thanks to robo-signershttp://bit.ly/hwogD9
Reuters: YouTube wants Web show maker Next New Networks: reporthttp://reut.rs/hAA6zC
DailyFinance: Jobless Claims Fall 3,000 to 420,000http://aol.it/dIc5li
DailyFinance: FedEx Earnings Miss Wall Street Estimates, Raises Outlookhttp://aol.it/eFQjaT
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