The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (11/5/2010) AIG Loss, Jobs Gain

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Twitter  has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twitter users. It raises the question of whether there is wisdom in crowds.

 

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.

FT: Toyota threatens to move production over surging yen: Satoshi Ozawa, Toyota’s chief financial officer, said the …http://bit.ly/aHwmhD

CNBC:  Spain, Ireland Bank Shares Hurt on Euro Zone Fearshttp://cnbc.com/id/40024852 $.SX7P #euro #EuropeanUnion #Spain#Irel #CorporateNews

CNBC: Economy Picks Up 151,000 Jobs, Rate Steadies at 9.6%http://cnbc.com/id/40024584 $$ #Economy #EconomicData#Employment #Consumers #Economy

FT: Hands loses EMI case against Citi: The case is estimated to have cost each side tens of millions of dollars in leg… http://bit.ly/90mWD3

Reuters Biz: Fed may let strong banks hike dividends http://dlvr.it/843Vp

Reuters Biz: AIG posts massive loss on sale and goodwill chargeshttp://dlvr.it/842mw

Reuters Biz: BofA fights pressure to buy back mortgages: report http://dlvr.it/83Qlr

Yahoo! Finance: Employers add 151K #jobs; unemployment at 9.6 pct.http://yhoo.it/a77C3u #economy

Yahoo! Finance: BofA and Citigroup testing iPhone for corporate email: reporthttp://yhoo.it/dleazG

MarketWatch: U.S. nonfarm payrolls jump by 151,000 for October; jobless rate steady at 9.6%http://on.mktw.net/cD6wOp

Douglas A. McIntyre

 

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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