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
The best, brightest -- and moreover duly accomplished -- Gold analysts these past few weeks quite understandably have been in full throat calling for "Gold 2000 by the end of April!" or "Gold 2500 by June!" So much so have they put Gold on...
In concert with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's Thursday announcement of a $2.3 trillion monetary injection for the U.S. economy -- on top of the federal government's $2.2 trillion economic aid package and with even more trillions...
We're of the long-running belief that everything -- and then some -- is all but instantaneously priced into major markets, or at least sufficiently so swiftly that 'tis nearly impossible for the human trader to take advantage, save for...
If one were told that Gold: recorded its "largest-ever" points up-change for a single trading day, (+109 on 24 March), and further that it... recorded its "largest-ever" points up-change from low-to-high across two consecutive trading days...
The ebbing tide which lowers all boats as the great Black Swan paddles past -- displacing to the downside just about everything but the Dollar -- is doing the damage quite similarly to what we witnessed back in the 2008/2009 credit demise...
To reason why, be it "theirs" by traditional Tennyson, or "ours" by contemporary culture, is oft a subjective exercise in futility, fatality for those in "The Charge of the Light Brigade", frustratingly for those in the discharge the Gold...
There's something about the Gold price of 1691. Oh to be sure, 'tis 16 points above our forecast high for this year of 1675, a level which according to the "Coronavirus? Who Knew? Dept." may in hindsight appear -- as we suggested back on...
The year's targeted forecast price for Gold of 1675 was reached this past Monday, 24 February; (as, with a wee bit of overshoot, was 1691). Then Gold's safe-haven status was breached, even in the face of the coronavirus' harrowing screech...
Indeed there 'tis in the Gold Scoreboard: "Gold Forecast High for 2020: 1675". With actual price having settled out the week yesterday (Friday) at 1646, the high en route was 1652, just 23 li'l ole points away from 1675. And 'tis only...
'Tis said "the market is never wrong", that instantaneously "priced-in" is everything known ... and beyond! Markets characterized as such tend to be actively liquid as is the case for Gold, the futures of which traded this past week at an...
