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
NYT: Icahn Extends Offer Period For Dynegyhttp://nyti.ms/hdOh6i
Reuters: US Airways posts quarterly profit http://dlvr.it/F7FNr
Reuters: Abbott beats forecasts as drug sales shinehttp://dlvr.it/F7Cg5
Calculated Risk: MBA: Mortgage Purchase Applications lowest since last October http://goo.gl/fb/6pQFa
Reuters: Boeing sees profit drop on fewer plane deliverieshttp://dlvr.it/F76rN
BBC: Job cuts and fine hit Barclays http://bbc.in/gLkEye
Zerohedge: Abbott Laboratories (ABT) to cut 1900 jobs, (2.6% of co.’s total workforce)
Bloomberg: #Barclays to Cut 1,000 Jobs as It Stops Giving In-Branch Investment Advice – http://ow.ly/3KtcN
Zerohedge: Mortgage Applications Tumble Double Digits, Refinance Index Hits Lowest Since January 2010http://is.gd/zEq6T1
MarketWatch: Boeing pegs 2011 earnings coming in lower than 2010 profit, sees ‘solid core performance’http://on.mktw.net/dYDiz7
Reuters: Kodak revenue falls in fourth quarterhttp://dlvr.it/F71RM
MarketWatch: United Technologies affirms 2011 outlook calling for profit growth of 7% to 13% http://on.mktw.net/dFBk3B
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