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
BBC Business: UK economy suffers 0.5% contractionhttp://bbc.in/g2poEP
Zerohedge: Underfunded Illinois Pension Fund Under Investigation By The SEC For Accounting Fraud http://is.gd/IIq0hR
Reuters: J&J sales disappoint, recalls hit consumer brandshttp://dlvr.it/F3Mlk
WSJ: Verizon Profit Rises, Wireless Growth Slowshttp://on.wsj.com/g4WTee
MarketWatch: Johnson & Johnson posts slim quarterly profit growth; lower sales mark ‘challenging’ yearhttp://on.mktw.net/gykY0n
Yahoo! Finance: Verizon profit, revenue miss Street viewhttp://yhoo.it/fYDv8R #earnings
WSJ: Blackrock Profit More Than Doubleshttp://on.wsj.com/dFfTmE
MarketWatch: 3M sees adjusted 2011 profit rising by 10% to 14%, forecasts double-digit sales growthhttp://on.mktw.net/hke7Ca
Reuters Biz: Blackrock sees 77 percent 4th qtr profit gainhttp://dlvr.it/F358H
Reuters Biz: Verizon Wireless subscribers beat estimateshttp://dlvr.it/F34MV
Douglas A. McIntyre