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 Federal Open Market Committee's policy statement released this past Wednesday, despite its confirming the raise of the FedFunds target range to 0.75%-1.00%, was couched as "dovish". We read the statement -- twice -- and didn't find...
Oh, were the price of Gold only to be rising with the local level of snow! Here in iconic Squaw Valley, wherein winter Olympians raced for the Gold back in 1960, this season's official snowfall total stands at 623" (16 metres), some 62%...
Gold has been thrice thwarted these past three weeks at the underbelly of the 1240-1280 resistance zone, coming off this last StateSide holiday with price again capsizing back down into the 1220s. But then, 'twas as if our call a week ago...
Having a week ago penned "Gold Reaches Resistance - Now What?", 'tis apt we now pen "Gold Getting Repelled by Resistance - That's What!" for 'twas the case over these past five trading days. Price made both a lower weekly high and a lower...
Sometimes we get lucky. Four weeks back when Gold's parabolic weekly trend flipped from Short to Long, we penned on 14 January "Gold Seeking 1240 on this Up Run". Done: Gold reached this past Wednesday as high as 1246 to hover up in the...
Six weeks into 2017, the above panel shows us Gold's being ahead of where 'twas over the same time frame in 2016, although the challenge of so staying appears dead ahead.
You know the stars are brilliantly aligned when the Dow Jones Industrial Average, (aka "that index at which our parents look"), finally satiates the FinMedia's suspense by crossing the 20k level at practically the same time the so-called...
From the final week of 2016 through the first three of 2017, gold has strung together four consecutive winning weeks, the three for this year as charted in the above newly attached panel to the Gold Scoreboard. Therein, we can instantly...
As you can above see, we've added a new panel to our weekly Gold Scoreboard: "Gold by the Week" compares the price track during 2017 to that of 2016, giving us an instant year-over-year assessment as to if Gold is faring better ... or not...
'Course, a year ago, gold perfectly timed its clutch bite in getting off the line to swiftly shift up through the gearbox toward posting a net gain of 4.5% through the first four trading days of 2016; but now through the same four-day...
