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: Visa, MasterCard sink on debit card fee cap planhttp://bit.ly/g1TZMm
Reuters Biz: Spain bad loan ratio rises to near 15-year high http://dlvr.it/Bb74v
Reuters: Moody’s slashes Ireland to Baa1, warns more may be aheadhttp://dlvr.it/BZ1YG
MarketWatch: Marshall & Ilsley shares rally as Canada’s BMO strikes $4.1 billion stock-swap dealhttp://on.mktw.net/f3ApeP
MarketWatch: Moody’s downgrades Ireland, citing uncertainty over economic outlook http://on.mktw.net/ifU0zc
Zerohedge: Goldman Removes Visa From Conviction Buy List After Stock Plunges http://is.gd/iTBHj
Zerohedge: Moody’s Downgrades Ireland From Aa2 to Baa1 – 5 Notch Downgrade, But Still Investment Grade http://is.gd/iSVTA
Yahoo! Finance: How Apple Will Become the Most Valuable Company in Americahttp://yhoo.it/gFXb97
Yahoo! Finance: M&A tops $2.2 trillion in first yearly rise since 2007http://yhoo.it/eC4Vhp
Douglas A. McIntyre