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
Not exactly the most cheery way to transit toward the month of May. For as we look above at Gold's comparative weekly tracks -- 2018 in gold, 2017 in White and 2016 in Grey -- the past years' like weeks have brought dismay into May. Not...
As we put fingers to keys here in pre-dawn San Francisco, 'tis but some 10 hours since the US/UK/France surgically precise strike on chemical facilities in Syria. To what extent there is a Russia et alia response remains in the balance....
As depicted above in the Scoreboard through these first 14 weeks of 2018, gold's weekly closes have been tightly arrayed between 1314 and 1349. That's all: a range of 35 points, (or +2.7% from low-to-high). Thus price sits tight despite so...
Long-time readers of The Gold Update know that our microphones are just about everywhere as we return to those placed inside the Salzburg clinical offices of esteemed analyst in the psychosis of precious metals, Dr. Youara Nichtsogut...
In looking back a week ago to "Gold's Narrow Trade; Beware a Cascade", price's since breaking away from such narrow trading range did come true -- right on cue -- and up price flew. As if 'twas foretold by the Sibyl, here's our updated...
You know the expression: "Get in, strap down, shut up, hang on!" For the agonizing narrow road upon which Gold has been slowly trudging these recent weeks is due to suddenly widen into a superhighway. And there's no week like this new week...
Gold's change for the week just past? A zip-zero-nada bona fide nuthin' burger. Well, ok, it did sport a net gain for the week of 30¢ having settled the prior Friday at 1323.7 and now yesterday at 1324.0. En route, price made both a "...
Two trading months plus two days of 2018 already GONE! Yet across the US and 'round into Europe it hardly feels like Spring is about to do so a wit: "snowing here" says a text from the small Mediterranean fishing village of Monaco: put...
Let's start with this "Think Quick!" hit: Gold's price direction always moves opposite to that of the Dollar. If you said "Wrong!" you're right. But you might be surprised just how often they actually move in the same direction: for the...
Such a high hurdle indeed: Base Camp 1377. For as we stated a week ago, each time gold as if a magnet pulls in the prices of the 1360s, 'tis is repelled by the pushing forces emanating down from the opposing iconic magnet at 1377,...
