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: Cocoa Export Ban Sends Cocoa Prices Surging, Ivory Coast Violence Expected http://is.gd/HXALd3
Zerohedge: EU Commission says important that Ireland passes the finance bill soon. Preferably before there is an uprising
CNNMoney: Economists see more hiring on the way http://bit.ly/eLsBYw
Reuters: Euro zone PMIs indicate rising inflation pressure http://dlvr.it/Dz8Gd
Reuters: GM falls just shy of Toyota in 2010 sales rankinghttp://dlvr.it/DyLbW
Reuters: Treasury’s toxic asset funds gain 27 percent http://dlvr.it/Dy4ls
Yahoo! Finance: McDonald’s reports higher quarterly profit http://yhoo.it/fJtOwM#earnings
Yahoo! Finance: J.C. Penney exiting catalog, closing some storeshttp://yhoo.it/hlvbEd $JCP
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