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
Greetings from the Land of the Bayou, where a mid-May stroll along the banks of the slowly flowin' Big Muddy here in Louisiana's capital is a walk through nature's own steam bath: 'tis easy on the joints and great for gettin' the suitcase...
Gold and Silver have taken their seats inside the ivy-covered brick building, Professor Marché distributing to them "blue books" and No. 2 yellow wooden pencils with their wee red rubber-tip erasers. Then disinterestingly lighting his pipe...
Greetings from sunny Santa Ana, which is about one-third the distance of the some 12,000-square mile seemingly endless slab of concrete that over the decades has been poured from Malibu to Mexico. The 18,000,000 population of the "greater...
Are we in the midst of an "Enchanted April"? No, not the absorbing 1992 Miramax film some might characterize as a so-called "chick movie", wherein the exquisite cinematography all around Italy's Riviera Ligure is nothing short of stunning.
A purposeful play on words, that title: Gold's 1240-1280 resistance zone not being futile means that 'tis working, repelling price from successfully clearing above it. In other words, once resistance is futile, Gold will be up into the...
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...
