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: Gold surges on weak durable goods, new record over $1626
MarketWatch: U.S. durable-goods orders fall a surprising 2.1% in June on weak transportation sector http://on.mktw.net/pgCcAn
Zerohedge: Durable Goods big miss, come at -2.1% on exp. +0.3, Ex trans 0.1% exp +0.5%
Bloomberg: Boehner fights internal party strife on debt plan | http://bloom.bg/oYbUOP
MarketWatch: Boeing shares gain as blue chip hikes 2011 forecast on ‘strong’ second-quarter performance http://on.mktw.net/pKyoqO
MarketWatch: Boeing $BA beats & boosts view, shares up. http://bit.ly/eVhVnZ
Yahoo!: Boehner rewriting debt limit plan as clock ticks http://yhoo.it/p7ixWc
Reuters: Mortgage applications ease after recent jump: MBA http://reut.rs/mZmJbd
FT: Dow Chemical profits beat estimates http://on.ft.com/o72cCj #FinancialTimes
Zerhedge: June Durable Goods: Another Miss http://is.gd/j5mgtq
Douglas A. McIntyre
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