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.
CNN Money: Correction: Number of Americans who filed for initial jobless benefits fell last week to 451,000; previous week unchanged, U.S. says. $$
NYT: Steelworkers Accuse China of Violating Trade Rules http://nyti.ms/bJ6brY
CNN Money: Buffett, Gates shunned by Chinese tycoons http://bit.ly/cgdNk5
CNN Money: U.K. fines Goldman $27 million in ‘Fab’ case http://bit.ly/9Xi7oS
MarketWatch: OPEC keeps oil demand forecast broadly unchanged http://bit.ly/ddUQmz
Reuters Biz: Bank of England holds rates at 0.5 percent http://reut.rs/d2mBou
Yahoo! Finance: McDonald’s US sales metric up 4.6 pct in August http://yhoo.it/ajsSoC $MCD $$
DailyFinance: McDonald’s Comparable Sales Rose 4.9% in August http://bit.ly/aJ4Ucz
DailyFinance: Jobless Claims Fall 27,500 to 451,000 http://bit.ly/9hsuPJ
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