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.
CNN Money: BP returns to profitability http://bit.ly/aM6RJn
FT: AIG tots up $37bn from Alico sale and AIA float: AIG, the insurance group bailed out by the US government in 2008,… http://bit.ly/apSKWj
FT: Ambac warns over prospect of bankruptcy: The bond insurer that once provided triple A guarantees on hundreds of bi…http://bit.ly/aZrzdg
Yahoo ! Finance: UPS says 2011 rates 4.9% as base-rate hikes are partly offset by lower fuel surcharges http://yhoo.it/bxiDX7
MarketWatch: Pfizer raises 2010 forecast for adjusted profit, affirms 2012 financial targets http://on.mktw.net/9wF7uB
MarketWatch: Euro-zone manufacturing production accelerates in Octoberhttp://on.mktw.net/dhnFt7
DailyFinance: IATA Calls For Shared Responsibility on New Security Measureshttp://aol.it/9DRoid
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