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 tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Together, these financial sites are followed by nearly 1,000,000 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.
NYT: Citigroup Reports $2.2 Billion Profit in Third Quarterhttp://nyti.ms/dpTyZW
CNN Money: Citigroup posts $2.2 billion profit http://bit.ly/d1INbJ
FT: US retailers to ride wave of China web sales: Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is about to launch a website … http://bit.ly/99W9ID
Reuters Biz: Citigroup reports $2.2 billion profit http://dlvr.it/7B4SY
Reuters Biz: Fund orders for AIA IPO to close early on strong demandhttp://dlvr.it/79bgs
Zerohedge: Wells Fargo Prepares For Tsunami Of Loan Repurchase Demandshttp://bit.ly/bZfN55
Yahoo! Finance: ‘Jackass’ gang pull biggest stunt yet with $50M debut for 3-D sequel; ‘Red’ opens at $22.5Mhttp://yhoo.it/cOaG4d
Douglas A. McIntyre