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
And thus with two trimesters (plus four days) of 2015's trading sessions now in the books, we find Gold in third place amongst our BEGOS Market Standings of percentage performance year-to-date. Here they are through yesterday's (September...
With respect to Thursday's notably large upward revision to the US' Q2 Gross Domestic Product from its initial reading of +2.3% to +3.7%, 'twas the largest such revision (+1.4%) since we began compiling our Economic Barometer 17 years ago...
No, not the panning of physical Gold from the cool, fresh downriver waters of a spring or glacially-fed idyllic stream with trout leaping about; rather the published panning of the Precious Metals in general, their no longer being worthy...
Good gracious how perceptions have changed as churned by the tide of our culture's continuing devolution. The following is straight from the "Just When You Thought You'd Heard It All Dept."
Apropos of this week's title, irrespective of the -- and indeed ever-ignored-- above scoreboard valuation at $2,523/oz., the following chart is the daily price of Gold from its highest closing level ever (1900.4 on 22 August 2011), as...
Long-time readers of The Gold Update know that our microphones are just about everywhere, to wit this air traffic chatter we just picked up yesterday (Friday): Tower: "Gold 1200, this is Airport 800 Tower; you have entered our airspace. If...
But, oh gee, what does Gold really have in common with Greece? Both have thwarted the will of their investors, Greece's in a sense being those who voted "No" barely a week ago. 'Course, 'tis the lenders who in effect are the real investors...
Are we having fun yet? There is quite a bit of fun here State Side today as we celebrate our having completed 239 years of Independence, (to the chagrin of those amongst our nation's riffraff who try to wrest it away from us). However for...
That title pretty much sums up the state of Gold in our recent missives. Arising each Saturday at 04:00 Pacific Time to compose The Gold Update is an informative (we hope) labour of love. However, mere hours from now at 17:00 CET in...
Gold is beginning to stir after seemingly sleeping through so many weeks of otherwise financial gyration amongst the markets that comprise BEGOS (Bond / Euro / Gold / Oil / S&P 500). The world's wary wonderment of "What's Next?" is...
