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
Gold just completed its ninth up week of the last 13, settling on Friday at 1332. But it did so on the week's ending down note, as afflicted all eight components of the BEGOS Markets complex (Bond, Euro/Swiss, Gold/Silver/Copper, Oil, S...
North of the equator, we've but 19 days left of summer, the year speeding past: 'tis already September! And, oh, what a year for the precious metals' performances which -- as measured over the past four decades -- are as top tier as they...
If the final trading day for 2016 had been last Friday, Gold having settled at 1324 would be (as presently 'tis) a gain of 24.8% for the year, the fifth best annual performance of the last four decades. Yet with over four months still to...
Has anyone noticed that Gold through these "Dog Days of August" has been on a fairly tight leash, almost as if reined in by the S&P500…such that both markets from one month ago-to-date have netted at best a mild 1% increase (the S&...
A week ago we presented a graphic depiction of Gold falling $19/oz. in four seconds. Yesterday (Friday) Gold gained $7/oz. in one second, the instantaneous move from 1348 to 1355 in turn gutting the glutinous glorification of the stock...
Well Squire, going by the repeated ad nauseam "Top of the Hour" radio news post-payrolls release yesterday (Friday), 'twas nuthin' but "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!", and apparently substantively so, the euphoric reporter giddily citing material...
We've again had our annual July reminder of just how swiftly time passes, Gold's trading volume having moved from the August contract into that for December. And for those of you lucky enough to be scoring at home, did you note the amount...
As we glide through these (one might say "hardly") "...lazy hazy crazy days of summer..." --(Nat King Cole, 1963), indeed now just a week ahead of those dog days of August, ours is titled as a dual-subject missive this time 'round. As...
In last week's missive, (Gold then at $1,345), we modestly raised our high target for this year to the vaunted level dubbed as "Base Camp 1377". Now with Gold having settled yesterday (Friday) at $1,367, what was Gold's high trade this...
The more wobbly becomes the world, the more warranted becomes the ownership of Precious Metals. Dare we say: "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off" --(Bricusse/Newley, '61)...whilst taking along both Gold and Silver. Indeed Sister Silver,...
