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.
Reuters: Leonard Green, CVC to submit bid for BJ’s Wholesale http://reut.rs/iOVTmf
Yahoo! Finance: Capital One to buy ING’s U.S. online bank for $9 billion http://yhoo.it/iAKRkE
Zerohedge: Goldman lowers RIMM PT to $34, keeps Sell rating
CNNMoney: Greece names Evangelos Venizelos as the new finance minister. He replaces Giorgos Papakonstantinou. http://bit.ly/l9YMGT via #CNN.
Reuters: SEC could file civil fraud charges against some raters http://reut.rs/lmO8OQ
Reuters: No respite from high farm prices this decade: report http://reut.rs/lPW0iF
Douglas A. McIntyre