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
Conservative Gold High Target for 2018: $1434. Flashback to Stateside Tax Day, 15 April 2013. Do you remember what really got "taxed" that day? Gold: high-to-low it fell 160 points from 1495 to 1335, the largest single-day points thrashing...
Whilst December finds Santa scurrying 'round the world with his toys sack, this month in recent years has found Gold at best a sad sack. Save for a bare monthly gain in 2014, the past seven years for Gold have decidedly sported December...
We were privileged to kick off the month of December yesterday (Friday) by taking coffee late in the trading session over at "the club" (oh yes) with a great and good friend of The Gold Update. In sharing the screen over which we'd been...
Talkin' turkey this post-Thanksgiving, let's chew on the track of Gold in the above Scoreboard, which shows price in 2017 now as more buoyant than 'twas coming into year-end 2016. But the centerpiece trading range across the entirety of...
Through Thursday of this past week, gold for all the world was yet again reprising its rendition of "Nowhere Man"--(The BeaTles, '65), apparently en route to a fourth consecutive weekly net change of less than 10 points.
In wrapping up last week's missive we simply wrote: "As to what we see for Gold in the new week: not much." What did we get? Not much. Not that a net change for the week of 0% is nothing, given gold's having to endure a micro-crash...
Longtime readers of The gold Update know of which that title is analogous. 'Tis Chris Issak's in concert description about a girl standing in a Greyhound bus station: she has dirty blonde hair, is wearing a taupe miniskirt, white boots and...
"But time is money, mmb..." So is Gold, Squire, as well as its being a store of value, (unlike popular equities past such as Bear Stearns which slid from $159 to $2, or Enron, its skid from $90 to 60¢, or even contemporarily the 35...
We begin straightaway with a set of our hidden microphones still placed after all these years inside the Salzburg clinical offices of Dr. Youara Nichtsogut, noted analyst in the psychosis of precious metals…
As the culturally chaotic -- albeit not (yet?) financially frantic -- year races past, 41 trading weeks now complete, gold just recorded its seventh best, rising 2.1% (27 points) in settling yesterday (Friday) at 1306.
