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.
Zerohedge: Goldman: QE2 Will Continue Into 2012, Will Be Over $2 Trillion, Models Do Not See Rate Hike Until 2015 http://bit.ly/bg3fsY
CNBC: Jobless Claims Back Up; Productivity Up, Costs Downhttp://cnbc.com/id/40004480 $$ #Economy #EconomicData#Employment #Consumers #Economy
MarketWatch: MarketWatch First-time U.S. jobless claims rise 20,000 last week, higher than forecast http://on.mktw.net/a127gi
CNN Money; Initial jobless claims surge by 20,000 to 457,000 in the latest week, the Labor Department says. $$
Reuters Biz: Early October retail sales top expectations http://dlvr.it/81Hvp
DailyFinance: Berkshire Hathaway’s NetJets Buys Marquis Jet http://aol.it/chh4Zt
DailyFinance: Starbucks to Renovate Fewer Stores in 2011 http://aol.it/aKLvbd
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