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
With the March meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee now past, on rates their having passed, (as was widely forecast), let's start straight-away with the Economic Barometer as we're somewhat aghast. Regular readers know that come "...
Gold settled yesterday (Friday) at 1251, down a scant nine points for the week. But not before being boffed all about the 1240-1280 resistance zone, trading exacerbated by currency disruption induced on Thursday from the European Central...
Nine weeks ago as Gold closed out last year at 1061, both herein and on radio, we set a 2016 price target for Gold of "the upper 1200s", refining it to 1280 as that is the upper band of the regularly-cited "1240-1280 resistance zone". Then...
With but one trading day left in February, we're nonetheless styling this week's Gold Update as our typical month-end edition: it thus features the year-to-date BEGOS Markets Standings, year-over-year comparisons of Gold vs. selected key...
I know, I know, Goldman Sachs Smart Alecks are now on record as of this past Tuesday (16 February) for Gold to return back down to 1100 within three months time, and then to further tumble to 1000 by a year from now. To be sure, as we...
Gold's combined gains for the past two weeks (+10.8%), and for the past three weeks (+12.8%), and for the past four weeks (+13.8%) are the largest percentage winners since the week ending 19 August 2011, after which price proceeded upward...
Let's begin with the below graphic from the 26 December edition of The Gold Update (which was queried "Gold to Ascend into Year's End?"). Having alluded to this picture a week ago, we now deem it worthy of being re-presented and updated...
Four trading weeks of the new year are now officially in the books, and as much as Gold may feel lackluster to many of you, 'tis had but one losing week of the four. Indeed from the year's low (1061) to its high (1128) is a 6% pop in price...
We start with this from the "Honesty is the Best Policy Dept.", for whilst markets all 'round are lurching about, does Gold not seem a bit docile throughout? Pro-Gold as we are, 'tis dutiful for us to point out that price -- as regularly...
With respect to our declared targets this year for Gold (upper 1200s) and the S&P500 (lower 1400s), both markets are directionally off on the right foot through these first two trading weeks of 2016. Given the Media Melodrama over the...
