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
Gold's combined gains for the past two weeks (+10.8%), and for the past three weeks (+12.8%), and for the past four weeks (+13.8%) are the largest percentage winners since the week ending 19 August 2011, after which price proceeded upward...
Let's begin with the below graphic from the 26 December edition of The Gold Update (which was queried "Gold to Ascend into Year's End?"). Having alluded to this picture a week ago, we now deem it worthy of being re-presented and updated...
Four trading weeks of the new year are now officially in the books, and as much as Gold may feel lackluster to many of you, 'tis had but one losing week of the four. Indeed from the year's low (1061) to its high (1128) is a 6% pop in price...
We start with this from the "Honesty is the Best Policy Dept.", for whilst markets all 'round are lurching about, does Gold not seem a bit docile throughout? Pro-Gold as we are, 'tis dutiful for us to point out that price -- as regularly...
With respect to our declared targets this year for Gold (upper 1200s) and the S&P500 (lower 1400s), both markets are directionally off on the right foot through these first two trading weeks of 2016. Given the Media Melodrama over the...
Off to a rather quaint start for New Year, what? As 2016's first trading session got underway, one of the more revered FinMedia outlets ran with this piece: "So Long, Farewell: Markets Hope to Shake Off 2015". Oops. And for pity's sake,...
That title pretty much sizes up where we are in transiting to the New Year. As was the case in 2013 and 2014, Gold throughout 2015 continued to be outed, disparaged and impugned; we now see 2016 as the year the general equities markets get...
'Tis quite the question, that title, with but four trading days in the balance for 2015. Of late, Gold is giving -- the appearance anyway -- of at least basing for year's end into which we are racing. To say nothing of the fact 'tis been...
Whilst preparing to "leave the building" as is our wont on FedDays, several hours prior to Wednesday's dastardly deed performed by the FOMC, I enjoyed a brief exchange of emails with a valued colleague up in Montréal, who bemoaned the...
Query: Come this Wednesday, 16 December, shall the Policy Statement from the Federal Open Market Committee confirm their having voted to nick the Federal Reserve Bank's overnight lending rate from 0.25% up a notch to 0.50%?
