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.
CNN Money: Citigroup waited up to 3 weeks before notifying credit card customers their accounts had been hacked http://bit.ly/mnm9ry $C shares up 0.5%
WSJ: ENRC Rises on Glencore Report http://on.wsj.com/mx9D6M
FT: Maple goes hostile with TMX offer: Canadian consortium goes hostile with C$3.7bn bid for operator of Toronto … http://on.ft.com/mQjzI5
NYT: Maple Makes Hostile Bid for Toronto Exchange Owner http://nyti.ms/kNVlQc
NYT: Wendy’s Sells Arby’s to Private Equity Group http://nyti.ms/kxjdMZ
Yahoo! Finance: Apple store employee seeks to plant union seed http://yhoo.it/ktSSGb
Douglas A. McIntyre