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.
FT: Microsoft confirms $8.5bn Skype buy: Microsoft is acquiring Skype, the internet telephone company, in what is… http://on.ft.com/ivwNzI
Yahoo! Finance: Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5B http://yhoo.it/kqNVEK
NYT: DealBook: Microsoft Announces $8.5 Billion Deal to Acquire Skype http://nyti.ms/jFj8RJ
WSJ: Microsoft to Acquire Skype http://on.wsj.com/kThQzd
MarketWatch: U.S. import prices rise 2.2% in April http://on.mktw.net/jPYxod
WSJ: Small-Business Pessimism Deepens http://on.wsj.com/jBipVQ
Yahoo! Finance: Community Health ends effort to buy rival Tenet http://yhoo.it/l1am81
CNN Money: Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, including debt, Fortune has confirmed. http://CNNMoney.com
Bloomberg: