Mark Mead Baillie
Market Analyst & Author
Mark Mead Baillie has had an extensive business career beginning in banking and financial services for two years with Banque Nationale de Paris to corporate research for three years at Barclays Bank and then for six years as an analyst and corporate lender with Société Générale.
For the last 22 years he has expanded his financial expertise by creating his own financial services company, de Meadville International, which comprehensively follows his BEGOS complex of markets (Bond/Euro/Gold/Oil/S&P) and the trading of the futures therein. He is recognized within the financial community of demonstrating creative technical skills that surpass industry standards toward making highly informed market assessments and his work is featured in Merrill Lynch Wealth Management client presentations. He has adapted such skills into becoming the popular author each week of the prolific “The Gold Update” and is known in the financial website community as “mmb” and “deMeadville”.
Mr. Baillie holds a BS in Business from the University of Southern California and an MBA in Finance from Golden Gate University.
Mark Mead Baillie Articles
In settling the abbreviated trading week on Thursday at a price of 1730, Gold's net change from the prior Friday was but -1 point. But here's the real but: Gold's trading range for the week initially ran from 1733 down to 1677, and then...
"But first we begin with Breaking News: The S&P 500 is at a record-closing high following the largest drop in Personal Spending in nearly a year..." So it hasn't crashed, yet...
A rather special one, this edition of The Gold Update, for in addition to our usual unrivaled read on the price of Gold, at the foot we review a "must read" new book.
Said title might also be phrased as "Hire Gold from Here" (i.e. put Gold to work for you) or perhaps editorially construed as being "in our opinion" per the word "Here" rather than being specifically from the price of Gold at 1726 where it...
Now really apropos is our anticipatory piece from two weeks ago ("Gold's Near-Term Brush with the 1600s") as 'tis become reality. Gold settled out the week yesterday (Friday) at 1698 (almost kissing where 'twas a year ago in the above...
Ok, we admit it with respect to last week's piece "Gold's Near-Term Brush with the 1600s": we were a bit dubious about the 1600s potentially getting teased. To be sure as a broad-term Gold bull, penning negatively about price hardly is...
No, we're not revising downward our Gold forecast high for this year of 2401. However, from the "Nothing Moves in a Straight Line Dept." -- and as has been our cautionary concern of late -- Gold's weekly parabolic trend just flipped from...
Most of you are seasoned enough to remember weathering (else you're likely not around anymore) the "Black Swan Financial Crisis" of 2008-2009. And when old Swannee flew, all of our BEGOS Markets (Bond / Euro / Gold / Oil / S&P) were...
Gold historically has (rarely) been broadly categorized as "overbought" vis-à-vis currency debasement, our arguing such case in price "having gotten ahead of itself" back in 2010-2011 as graphically depicted in the above millennium-to-date...
Already one trading month of 2021 has been burned, therein the price of Gold having mostly been churned. In settling out the week yesterday (Friday) at 1850, 'twas not only the sixth consecutive trading day during which such price traded,...
