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
Per the above Scoreboard, Gold year-to-date clearly is tracking with the least degree of comparative alacrity to the prior three years, the price plot plodding along with a wee downside bias as if 'twere all quiet on the financial front.
Gold's year-to-date track per the above Scoreboard is but a mild downward drift, quite akin to that which 'twas to this point in 2018, and certainly not as were the more robust upside progressions across the same stint in 2017 and 2016.
In a sense in sequel to that which we penned a week ago ("Gold Sits On Its Box Whilst The Herd Chase Stocks"), Gold remains lifeless as another week passes, although the balance of the herd finally is paying the price for overdosing on...
For 2019, four months (plus three trading days in May) are in the books. And the wallflower at this year's Dance of the Markets so far is Gold, essentially "unch" from where it finished 2018 (at 1285), settling out the week yesterday (...
Do you remember "When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen"? Decades later, today we might say: "When Goldman opines, it goes online" ... or something like that.
Returning to San Francisco is always tough enough, but try this for a bring-down: well into our 10th year of faithfully penning The Gold Update without a single Saturday miss, en route (for those of you scoring at home) toward edition No....
Greetings from glorious Squaw Valley, the snow depth in which is a great lesson for Gold to follow. Since our first strapping on the slats back here in '68 -- and in chatting with the ski patrol (who best know) during this present stint...
'Tis a no-brainer that "trend" is based on the past whilst "price" is based on the now. Hence the title of this week's missive. Or for you frenzied StateSide sports fanatics out there given all the collegiate basketball hoopla coming to...
"What—Me Worry?" Indeed 'twas just one week ago that we penned "Gold's Short-Lived Short Trend". But then Gold whilst steadying to a bruising right royal Brexit-and-all-else-be-damned kick in the butt went on to settle yesterday (Friday)...
A foundational phrase throughout these many years of penning The Gold Update is "Being Short Gold is a bad idea." 'Cept that since 06 September 2011 when the price of Gold peaked at 1923, Short has materially been the side to court, or as...
