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
WSJ: Nokia Eyes Windows Phone Launch This Year
USAToday Money: Most Americans think China is No. 1 economy; it isn’t
The Atlantic: President Obama Unveils $3.7 Trillion Budget Plan:http://tumblr.com/xed1ifgt81
Yahoo! Finance: Obama budget director calls new spending blueprint ‘shared sacrifice’ in budget-cutting
NYT Business: China’s Trade Surplus Shrinks as Nation Imports More
Yahoo! Finance: Nokia’s Microsoft deal gets renewed hammering
Yahoo! Finance: Airline association IATA expects 3.3 billion air travelers by 2014, up 32 percent from 2009
Douglas A. McIntyre