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Mark Mead Baillie

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Mr. Baillie began an extensive career in banking and financial services ranging from the Banque Nationale de Paris in retail banking services to Barclays Bank as a corporate research analyst to a former position as a corporate lender for Societe Generale.

For the last 20 years he has expanded his financial expertise by creating his own financial services company involving various private partnerships. The markets upon which he specifically focuses are the Bond, the Euro/Swiss Franc, Gold/Silver/Copper, Oil and the S&P 500. Mr. Baillie is recognized within the investing and trading community for demonstrating creative technical skills that surpass industry standards toward making highly informed market assessments. His work is featured in Merrill Lynch Wealth Management client tele-presentations, as well as at www.timeandcycles.com and on occasion at www.321gold.com.

Mr. Baillie holds a Bachelors Degree in Business from the University of Southern California and a Masters Degree in Finance from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where he currently resides.

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Resilience in gold... higher levels foretold?

Tuesday November 29, 2022 05:59PM

(Kitco commentary) - This past Wednesday whilst many a StateSider were preoccupied toward getting from home base to grandma's place, or worse, under the stress and duress of hosting Thanksgiving in full finesse, one might have missed Gold instantly regress

Recession over and gold falls lower

Tuesday November 1, 2022 05:36PM

(Kitco commentary) - Given so much going on within the monetary/financial chaos out there, (and it being -- save for one trading day -- our graphically-rich, month-end edition of The Gold Update).

Gold resumes its slide amidst stocks' wild ride

Monday October 17, 2022 03:40PM

(Kitco commentary) - In settling out the week yesterday (Friday) at 1650, Gold recorded its lowest weekly close of the past four.

Gold Gets a Bit of a Grip; The S&P Looks Lower to Slip

Tuesday October 11, 2022 11:09AM

(Kitco commentary) - Gold garnered a +2.0% net gain for the week in scrabbling back over 1700 to settle yesterday (Friday) at 1702.

Gold further screwed in 2022

Monday September 19, 2022 05:00PM

(Kitco commentary) - In leading directly to Gold's weekly bars, we begin with this timely quip: "It don't do for a man to tempt providence too often." --[John Kitzmiller as Quarrel, "Dr. No", Eon Productions 1962]...

Gold and silver stemming their downtrend

Tuesday September 13, 2022 11:17AM

(Kitco commentary) - Mme. Lagarde & Co. just kicked the Buck in its butt, in turn giving Gold a bit of a bid, but -- as Mark Twain might have penned -- "'Twarn't really much".

Gold's sleep becomes further deep

Tuesday September 6, 2022 04:56PM

(Kitco commentary) - As goes Gold's woes, again Bill Shakespeare (significantly paraphrased) comes to mind, circa 1600

Gold repressed back below resistance

Tuesday August 23, 2022 12:18PM

(Kitco commentary) - Admittedly, (or perhaps more protectively stated "arguably"), fueling Gold's price demise was our recklessly penning a week ago that "...if contract volume stays on a diet [which it has], near-term we can see price loss back to 1790 and [for Silver] sub-20 ..."

A major gold trend finally ascends

Monday August 8, 2022 11:41AM

(Kitco commentary) - After 18 rather ingloriously agonizing weeks of Gold's "parabolic trend" being Short, it has at long last finally flipped to, well, Long. "A little drum-roll please, have a cigar, and nice to see you again sometime!"

Gold price accession into recession

Monday August 1, 2022 06:24PM

(Kitco commentary) - First we start with our title's last word: "recession". If you do the math and/or are a regular reader of The Gold Update, you well-understand that the U.S. Gross Domestic Product ex-inflation just recorded its fourth consecutive quarter of shrinkage.