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.
FT: Spain sells €4bn of debt as demand improves: Spain successfully borrows €3.97bn from the markets amid growing sign… http://bit.ly/b3wSUr
NYT: U.S. Adopts Tougher Stance on China http://nyti.ms/aEKzz1
CNN Money: FedEx: Economy improving but cutting 1,700 jobs http://bit.ly/9m61Gf
CNN Money: Jobless claims down for second week in a row http://bit.ly/cduKE5
CNN Money: Initial claims for unemployment benefits fall to the lowest level in 2 months to 450,000, government says. $$
Reuters Biz: Weekly jobless claims hit two-month low http://reut.rs/c9swKw
Reuters Biz: FedEx profit doubles, but shy of Wall Street view http://reut.rs/dqS9qk
Reuters Biz: August producer prices rise on energy rebound http://reut.rs/9NbMdY
Douglas A. McIntyre
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