(In March 13 story, corrects headline, first paragraph and table after SPDR Gold Trust revised its physical gold ETF holdings data for March 10)
March 13 (Reuters) - Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund $(ETF.AU)$, New York's SPDR Gold Trust fell nearly 0.2%, while those of the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust were unchanged on Friday from Thursday.
Exchange-traded funds, the most widely recognized type of ETP, back each security issued with physical stocks of a given commodity, creating a product they say is free from counterparty risk.
Name New Holdings Date Prev Holdings Prev Abs Change % chg YTD Abs
GOLD $(OZ)$ (OZ) (OZ) Change (OZ)
SPDR Gold Trust 29,037,305.40 March 9 -55,781.20 -0.19% -521,516.10
28,981,524.20 March 10
COMEX Gold Trust 14,161,193.20 March 10 14,161,193.20 March 9 0 0.00% -268,584.70
ETF Securities gold (ex-US) 9,293,742.40 Nov 30 9,293,742.40 Nov 30 -- -- -3,00,230.4
ZKB Physical Gold 4,963,481.30 March 3 4,963,481.30 March 3 -- -- -93,772.60
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Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,122,396.00 March 10 3,122,393.00 March 9 3 0.00% -27,759.00
ETFS Physical Swiss Gold 844,902.30 Jan 24 844,902.30 Jan 24 -- -- 57,520.60
ABSA - NewGold ETF 542,098.40 March 10 542,102.80 March 9 -4.5 0.00% 19,266.60
Total 61,909,337.80 61,965,120.40 55,782.60 -0.09% -834,845.20
SILVER
iShares Silver Trust 478,879,337.90 March 10 478,879,337.90 March 9 0 0.00% 11,418,059.10
Sprott Physical Silver 170,530,589.00 March 10 170,530,589.00 March 9 0 0.00% 540
ETF Securities silver ex-US 100,389,761.60 Nov 30 100,389,761.60 Nov 30 -- -- 2,71,35,104.7
ZKB Physical Silver 95,252,546.80 March 3 95,252,546.80 March 3 -- -- -864,790.80
ETFS Physical Silver Shares 61,11,152.0 March 20 6,111,152.00 March 20 -- -- -1,71,05,014.8
Total 851,163,387.30 851,163,387.30 0 0.00% 20,583,898.20
PLATINUM
ETFS Physical Platinum Shares 738,343.90 March 20 738,343.90 March 20 -- -- -10,582.10
ABSA - NewPlat ETF 425,397.30 March 10 424,438.90 March 9 958.4 0.23% 72,910.70
ETF Securities platinum ex-US 617,330.80 Nov 30 617,330.80 Nov 30 -- -- 32,609.50
ZKB Physical Platinum 473,166.90 March 3 473,166.90 March 3 -- -- -283.3
Total 2,254,238.90 2,253,280.50 958.4 0.04% 94,654.80
PALLADIUM
InvestPalladium ETF 3,633.00 March 10 3,630.10 March 9 2.9 0.08% -950.2
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ETFS Physical Palladium Shares 23,425.80 March 20 23,425.80 March 20 -- -- -1,34,305.6
ETF Securities palladium ex-US 111,915.00 Nov 30 111,915.00 Nov 30 -- -- -959.5
ZKB Physical Palladium 66,924.90 March 3 66,924.90 March 3 -- -- 1,683.80
ABSA - NewPalladium ETF 7,000.60 March 10 7,000.60 March 9 -0.1 0.00% -2,904.40
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Total 212,899.20 212,896.40 2.8 0.00% -137,436.00
The figures above are those reported to Reuters by the organizations involved by telephone or email on the date shown, or those that are publicly available on their websites.
** ZKB physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium funds are fully backed by physical precious metal and investors are entitled to physical delivery of them.
*** Shareholders in the GAM Gold fund can elect to hold "A class" shares, which are fully backed by physical gold. Investors in that class are entitled to physical delivery of the precious metal. Investors may also elect to hold "AX" class shares, which are fully backed by physical gold. Investors in that class are not entitled to physical delivery of the precious metal.
**** Absa Capital's NewPalladium Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) was listed on March 27, 2014 and is fully backed with South African palladium.
# Standard Bank's AfricaPalladium ETF, South Africa's first listed palladium exchange traded fund, debuted on March 24, 2014. ((((For help: Click "Contact Us" in your desk top, click here HELP or call 1-800-738-8377 for Reuters Products and +1-888-463-3383 for Thomson products)) ))
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