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
Long-time readers of The Gold Update know our favourite final future headline is: “World Ends, Dow +2”, (“The Dow” of course being that Index at which our parents used to look) … except these last two days instead brought Dow -3,911 …...
Well! Can we all say “Gold 3100!” After all, why stop at 3000? For this past Thursday as Gold’s contract volume rolled from April into that for June came +29 points of fresh price premium and (per Tag Team from ’93): “Whoomp! There It...
Thus far in 2025, ’tis been the year of the Gold bid. Folks who are clueless on Gold are abashedly asking about it. “How much is it?” “How do I buy it?” “How much is in Fort Knox?” “How do I store it?” “How much is it taxed?” “How do I...
Gold settled yesterday at 2994 in reaching a new All-Time High of 3017, the Monday-Friday net gain both by points (+76) and percentage (+2.6%) being the best of the year’s 11 weeks-to-date, within which (as aforenoted) only one has been...
Whilst we’ve still our near-term negative bent for the price of Gold, nonetheless let’s reprise this from last week’s missive: “…one thing to watch is a stirring of geo-political jitters which as you regular readers know can quickly send...
Not that we’ve been rooting for Gold to fall, but it being one of the world’s most substantive liquid markets, it implicitly both rises and falls in its interactive role — that reflecting the cost of currency debasement — as one of the...
Let’s commence with another infamous Gold Update quiz! Ready? Since at least this very day a month ago (22 January), what technically until yesterday (21 February) have both Gold and the S&P 500 had in common? “They’ve been overbought...
“This is where it starts to get fun.” If said phrase ran across your mind during this past week, worry not: for it, too, ran through our mind. And thus it having run through both your mind and our mind, then it also ran through the many...
The price of Gold just completed its sixth consecutive up week, within which the past three thus far comprise the newest weekly parabolic Long trend. Indeed through this latest week, Gold continued to attain All-Time Highs, teasing...
As anticipated would happen this past week per “Gold Goes Long with Three Golden Goals”, Goal One “the next All-Time High for Gold”, was achieved upon the February contract price crossing above 2802 on Thursday at 13:39 GMT, in furtherance...
