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: NYSE-Euronext shares rise on talk of rival bid to Deutsche Boerse’s http://on.mktw.net/dYSsot
Reuters: Consumer spending rises 0.7 percent in Febhttp://dlvr.it/Lj9k7
WSJ: Nissan Sees Output Recovery Within Weekshttp://on.wsj.com/eWLzpY
Zerohedge: Savings Rate Dips As Consumers Spend More, Earn Less In February http://is.gd/SxU7BM
WSJ: Americans’ spending in February rose 0.7%, while incomes were up 0.3% http://on.wsj.com/hsTdl4
MSNBC: Consumer spending rose sharply in Oct.http://on.msnbc.com/gGCfMW
MarketWatch: U.S. disposable incomes pinched in February as prices rise http://on.mktw.net/hmPq2t
CNBC: Feb. Personal Income up 0.3%, Personal Spending up 0.7%
Douglas A. McIntyre