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
Or if you prefer: "Abidin' Biden: Buy Gold." Short-lived as it may become, the Biden era has begun; and regardless of Harris waiting in the wings, ought higher be the price Gold brings. For wealth to withstand, indeed endure, the onrush of...
Gold was sheared this past week by -1.2% and is now -3.9% year-to-date. Silver was smeared this past week by -2.6% and is now -6.4% year-to-date. But relax: have a cracker 'n schmear, perhaps even a beer, and we'll try to relate to make it...
Gold closed out the Second Decade of the 21st Century this past 31 December at the price of 1902, after which we penned our missive "Seeking Gold 2401 (+26%) in 2021". Gold opened the Third Decade of the 21st Century this past Monday at...
Through all its thrashing machinations, Gold just completed the Second Decade of the 21st Century with a ten-year net gain of +34% from 1422 on 31 December 2010 to 1902 on 31 December 2020. We now look for Gold in the first year of the...
High-level analytical assessments are oft said to be made from the "35,000-foot level". Such is the case here -- literally -- from said altitude above The Atlantic at a pace of some 603 knots by the cockpit display in the seatback in front...
It being toward year-end, indeed that for the decade, our good friends over at Investing.com again asked us to soothsay that which we see for next year. Thus we also think it apropos by which to herein open as follows:
An alliterative title, indeed favourably flowery for Gold's having ground up the so-called "weak longs", its gathering fresh ones and getting grooved for the oft-seasonal price rise into year-end.
We've cited time and again over the years that Gold plays no currency favourites. But let's face it: this recent selling in Gold was getting a little ridiculous given the Dollar's having taken on a more material demise of late. Why, even...
We are now proven wrong, (following last week's piece having been intently entitled "Gold More Consolidative Than Corrective Before 'BOING!'"). And yet we "feel" as Gold Bullish as ever! Convoluted indeed.
If you are a Gold Bull, which without saying you are (else you'd lack the common sense to be reading this piece, let alone own Gold directly or by right), then this is your kind of market "correction" wherein price rather than falling is...
