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: Initial Claims Surge To 445K, On Expectations Of 410Khttp://is.gd/eqhz8m
FT: Bank maintains course on rates and QE: The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to hold rates at th… http://bit.ly/dFNiwZ
Reuters: New jobless claims post biggest jump in 6 months http://dlvr.it/DFbpl
Reuters: AT&T to take $2.7 billion charge in Q4 on accounting changehttp://dlvr.it/DFbpM
Reuters: KKR potentially interested in Sara Lee: sourceshttp://dlvr.it/DF0Z1
MarketWatch: U.S. weekly initial jobless claims up 35,000; producer prices rise 1.1% in December http://on.mktw.net/hCqVoT
MarketWatch: Marathon Oil shares jump 12% in premarket on news the company will split into two http://on.mktw.net/gFfzYR
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