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.
Zerohedge: US Import Price Index (May) M/M 0.2% vs. Exp. -0.7% (Prev. 2.2%). Inverse deflation
CNN Money: Pandora files to sell 14.7 million shares in an initial public offering, at an estimated price of between $10 and $12 a share.
Zerohedge: S&P says France needs further reforms to keep its AAA rating in long term
Bloomberg: Germany digs in on Greek debt extension | http://bloom.bg/jrrXfq
CNN Money: Toyota forecasts it could lose over $1B in profits in current FY due to disruptions from the tsunami & earthquake http://bit.ly/kLigHK $TM
MSNBC: Toyota forecasts profit slide after quake http://on.msnbc.com/kkfZ3G
NYT: Toyota Expects 31 Percent Profit Slump http://nyti.ms/jfoLEp
Yahoo! Finance: Toyota forecasts 35 percent profit slide after quake http://yhoo.it/lWoJ2Z $TM
Douglas A. McIntyre