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
The Atlantic: AOL Buys Huffington Post in $315 Million Deal:http://bit.ly/gSNs1l via @nationaljournal
CNN Money: AOL acquires Huffington Post http://bit.ly/fCEy0H
WSJ: Berkshire Hathaway Buys Rest of Wescohttp://on.wsj.com/gXSG2G
NYT: DealBook: Danaher to Buy Beckman Coulter for $5.8 Billionhttp://nyti.ms/h6FpPB
MarketWatch: Offshore contract driller Ensco to acquire Pride International at 21% premium http://on.mktw.net/gAUJcD
Reuters Biz: Hasbro profit tops estimates, sees growth in 2011http://dlvr.it/FzzyZ
Yahoo! Finance: Copper hits record; stocks, Treasury yields uphttp://yhoo.it/hvdiCJ
NYT: Berkshire Hathaway to Buy Remaining Shares of Wescohttp://nyti.ms/dIzqeL
WSJ: Hasbro Profit Slips 15% http://on.wsj.com/fXHz3q
Douglas A. McIntyre