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: DealBook: Bank of America to Spin Off Buyout Arm http://nyti.ms/f7v7S7
MSNBC: Fear-fueled rally drives gold above $1,500/oz http://on.msnbc.com/ewcNtd
Reuters: AT&T subscriber growth weakens, but beats Street http://dlvr.it/P6zd7
WSJ: Wireless Growth Lifts AT&T Profit http://on.wsj.com/gcEi6D
NYT: DealBook: In Rival Bids for NYSE, Weighing the Lesser of 2 Evils http://nyti.ms/dGB4d7
Reuters: AT&T subscriber growth weak without iPhone exclusive http://dlvr.it/P6pyk
CNBC: Wells Fargo $WFC Q1 EPS $0.67 vs $0.66 est, $20.3b in revenues, Q1 provision for credit losses $2.2B http://bit.ly/h3vGin
AT&T: Apple to ship new iPhone in September: sources http://yhoo.it/eOAcbV
Zerohedge: Gold Breaches Nominal High Of $1,500/oz; Inflation Adjusted High Of $2,400/oz Remains Long Term Target http://is.gd/X96Ej5
Douglas A. McIntyre