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: Nation’s economy grew at 2.5% annual rate in the third quarter, faster than the 2% rate previously reported, government says. $$
Zerohedge: Spain Bund spread hits all time wide: 230 bps, up 22 on the day on horrible Spanish Bill auction
WSJ: Investors are close to a deal to buy J. Crew for about $3 billionhttp://on.wsj.com/gAIScK
FT: News Corp buys education software company: Rupert Murdoch is making his first significant foray into school room… http://bit.ly/i6ZoVB
Reuters Biz: EU urges feuding Ireland not to delay budget http://dlvr.it/92DFZ
Reuters Biz: News Corp to buy education tech company for $360 millionhttp://dlvr.it/912Th
Reuters Biz: J.Crew near agreement to be acquired: source http://dlvr.it/90×79
MarketWatch: U.S. third-quarter GDP revised to 2.5% growth, slightly better than forecast http://on.mktw.net/e98ErV
DailyFinance: Nissan Leaf Will Get Equivalent of 99 Miles Per Gallonhttp://aol.it/hRdXUj
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