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: This week’s beat of the 425k initial claims consensus by 4k will be revised next week to a miss of consensus.
Economist: Brazil GDP grows 6.7% YOY, beats expectations; UK increases bank levy; billionaires sign Buffett/Gates pledge http://ow.ly/3mscU
CNN Money: Howard Stern: 5 more years with Siriushttp://bit.ly/gjZyza
Reuters Biz: Jobless claims revive hopes of recovery http://dlvr.it/B2lkb
Reuters Biz: Mastercard set to buy part of Travelex: sourceshttp://dlvr.it/B2Q9C
MarketWatch: U.S. weekly jobless claims drop 17,000 to 421,000http://on.mktw.net/h3sHQs
MarketWatch: Dell in talks to buy Compellent for $27.50 a sharehttp://on.mktw.net/eSCTIJ
Yahoo! Finance: Howard Stern in five-year deal with Sirius http://yhoo.it/eO3YnH
Yahoo! Finance: American homes are worth $1.7 trillion less http://yhoo.it/dIfY0L
Yahoo! Finance: Unemployment claims top calendar: Jobless Claims and Wholesale Trade http://yhoo.it/fda09O via @optionMONSTER
Douglas A. McIntyre