Daily FNArena News - FYI

This history of BHP Billiton, first published in 2009, is an entertaining insight into mining, the corporate world, and the characters who inhabit it.

A warning from the Consumer Metrics Institute as the downtrend in US online retail sales seems to have resumed.

Your editor joined three other guests in Friday’s Afternoon Round Table on BRR to discuss why the share market continues its underperformance, among other subjects.

Your editor has joined Twitter. Here are my Tweets from the week past.

Barclays Capital’s analysis of monthly seasonal trends shows May tends to be a good month for equities, nat gas and the US dollar, while commodity currencies and aluminium find the going tougher.

The current advance in risk assets is increasingly carried by a smaller group of leaders. This is not how a bull market looks like, highlights GaveKal.

Technical analysis by ATW’s Jerry Simmons suggests the price of gold is peaking.

Your editor joined four other guests in Friday’s Afternoon Round Table on BRR to discuss why the share market is doing it tough, among other subjects.

Dian Chu of EconMatters suggests QE2 will go down as one of the Federal Reserve’s worst monetary policy initiatives.

ATW’s Jerry Simmons explores potential scenarios for silver, copper, EUR/USD and US equities.