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
MarketWatch: U.S. retail sales rise 0.3% in January
CNN Money: Retail sales climb 0.3% in January on strength in grocery and gasoline purchases, the government says.
Zerohedge: China, Where GM Sold More Cars In 2010 Than In The US, Sees January Car Sales Plunge 10.3%
CNN Money: Chevron to fight multi-billion Ecuador ruling http://bit.ly/dWSnec
MSNBC Business: German takeover of the NYSE expected
CNBC: Home Depot to Hire More Than 60,000 Seasonal Associates Ahead of Spring Black Friday Rush
Yahoo! Finance: NYSE deal nears as Deutsche Boerse board meets
Yahoo! Finance: U.S. Deficit is biggest as share of economy since WWII; economists fear a domino effect later http://yhoo.it/gsowJp
Reuter Biz: Sirius XM’s reports quarterly loss http://dlvr.it/Gdph1
Douglas A. McIntyre
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