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.
USA Today: Overall prices dip; consumers pay more for autos, clothes http://usat.ly/pJwyTJ
Yahoo! Finance: Swiss bank Credit Suisse’s offshore business targeted in US tax evasion investigation http://yhoo.it/oW0q74
Zerohedge: Empire Manufacturing Kicks Off Weak Q3 GDP, CPI Lower Than Expected On Gas Price Drop As Core Price Increase Continues http://is.gd/QzwCgM
Reuters: June consumer prices record largest drop in a year http://reut.rs/nrcY6e
Yahoo! Finance: Taiwan’s TSMC to make Apple chips on trial http://yhoo.it/pTbgjp
WSJ: U.S. consumer prices fell 0.2% in June, the first monthly drop in a year http://on.wsj.com/ojoGHg
NYT: DealBook: Citigroup Profit Rises 24% to $3.3 Billion http://nyti.ms/qgbrAT
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