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
'Twas what that we wrote one week ago? Quote: "[Gold's] weekly parabolic trend remains comfortably to the Long side, resting well above the ascending blue dots as we see here." Now one week later, might we defer to the great Inspecteur...
One week ago, we pointed to the then pending Federal Open Market Committee policy statement as a "non-event". Essentially 'twas, despite the buzz. And yet, au contraire, we ought be shaking in our boots now, what? No, not because 'tis...
"What's up, Doc?" Try the Dollar, the Stock Market ... and Gold. Who knew? Surely such positive correlation amongst these three specific markets is a phenomenon not normally found in nature. But on the heels of our having noted a week ago...
In rising 1.9% for the week, the price of Gold has now gained as much as $119/oz. (to 1191) since the year's low (1072) in July, a move of +11.1%. There are Gold equities which have increased multiple times that percentage from their...
Per recent missives, Gold -- as it did twice more this past week -- is putting in a sufficient number of "lift-offs" such that we'll stop enumerating them. The point is: Gold is banking buying bursts on each broadly visible suggestion of...
Prior to yesterday's (Friday's) report on our StateSide September Slump in payrolls growth, Gold's performance since having achieved "lift-off" (two missives ago) has rather been that of a vehicle from Kim Jong Un's toy box: a rocket which...
It cannot be an easy job these days were one a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, let alone chairing the Board of Governors of our Federal Reserve System. What we, as do diligent analysts see, doesn't always tally with what we...
Long time readers of The Gold Update know that our microphones are just about everywhere, the latest instance being at Mission Control in Houston this past Thursday in concert with the Federal Open Market Committee's policy decision as...
The double entendre of the title is fitting, but in its more literal sense, lately the trade of Gold is as if 'tis been left for dead: narrow, discarded, lifeless, especially given the ramped-up volatility of stocks markets here, there and...
And thus with two trimesters (plus four days) of 2015's trading sessions now in the books, we find Gold in third place amongst our BEGOS Market Standings of percentage performance year-to-date. Here they are through yesterday's (September...
