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 tweet are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. These financial sites are followed by a combined 625,000 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.
Among the most tweeted stocks on StockTwits are MACRO, Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX), Crocs Inc (NASDAQ: CROX), Cirrus Logic, Inc (NASDAQ: CRUS), Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG), and Aruba Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: ARUN).The Economist: Headlines: BP shares rise on speculation of asset sale, Exxon bid; UK recession worse than first thought; Aon buys Hewitt http://ow.ly/2a7oN
FT: Aon to buy Hewitt in $4.9bn deal: The world’s largest insurance brokerage says it will acquire human-resource serv… http://bit.ly/9StAee
NYT: Aon Buys Hewitt in Move to Expand Its Consulting http://nyti.ms/atpmWp
MarketWatch: BP removes well cap; crude oil flows unrestricted into Gulf of Mexico http://on.mktw.net/dpyE84
Yahoo! Finance: BP says cost of dealing with Gulf of Mexico oil spill reaches $3.5 billion http://yhoo.it/9A3KD9
Yahoo! Finance: Aon agrees to buy Hewitt for $4.9 billion http://yhoo.it/diuOXQ
Yahoo! Finance: Forget Gold, China Will Double Its Uranium Hoarding This Year http://yhoo.it/br3dSH
Douglas A. McIntyre