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
Economist: Headlines: China tightens bank reserves again; IEA raises estimates for 2011 oil demand; VW sales to top 7m this year http://ow.ly/3n4Jj
MarketWatch: Tenet Healthcare shares soar more than 50% after Community Health offer http://on.mktw.net/hcCotP
Reuters Biz: China’s Sinopec buys Occidental’s Argentina assetshttp://dlvr.it/B64jY
Reuters Biz: Strong China trade points to higher interest rateshttp://dlvr.it/B5DVJ
Reuters Biz: China raises banks’ reserve ratios again http://dlvr.it/B5t51
CNN Money: China’s trade surplus falls to $22.9 billion http://bit.ly/hloSpq
MarketWatch: China’s central bank raises reserve requirements for banks by 50 basis points http://on.mktw.net/esRbr5
DailyFinance: The Most Expensive Gift at 12 American Retailershttp://aol.it/dM9FII
Douglas A. McIntyre