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.
The Economist: UBS, C Suisse will need big capital increase; Sanofi launches Genzyme bid; 50% AIA stake expected to be sold http://ow.ly/2O08C
MarketWatch: Sara Lee surges 17% in premarket on report that it spurned takeover by equity firm KKR http://on.mktw.net/9m1MII
Reuters Biz: Sanofi makes hostile $18.5 billion bid for Genzyme http://dlvr.it/6RMjt
Yahoo ! Finance: Bank of America delays foreclosures in 23 states as it examines handling of documents http://yhoo.it/bSR8sx
Yahoo! Finance: Verizon Wireless plans $30M-$90M customer refunds http://yhoo.it/bCfVRE
Douglas A. McIntyre