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.
Zerohedge: Initial Jobless Claims Decline, Continuing Rise, After Prior Upward Revision 23 Of 24 http://bit.ly/b06D3l
CNN Money: Number of people filing for 1st-time jobless benefits dips 11,000 in latest week to 445,000, government says. Lowest since early July $$
CNN Money: Google’s next giant revenue stream http://bit.ly/cxATKl
CNN Money: Ford pulls ahead of its rivals http://bit.ly/dp9Y1f
Reuters Biz: Oil companies plan new U.S. oil spill fund http://dlvr.it/6gmVQ
FT: BP reveals ‘giant’ oil discovery: The Tiber field, in deep water about 250 miles south-east of Houston, is likel.. http://bit.ly/PKvcE
MarketWatch: U.S. weekly jobless-benefits claims fall by 11,000 http://on.mktw.net/9e2l2a
MarketWatch: Gold futures sail past $1,360 an ounce ahead of European monetary-policy decisions http://on.mktw.net/d0oW32
Douglas A. McIntyre