April 29 (Reuters) - Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund $(ETF.AU)$, New York's SPDR Gold Trust , fell 0.31 percent on Friday from Thursday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust , fell 0.21 percent during the same period.
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 26,755,826.8 Apr 26 26,839,125.9 Apr 25 -83,299.1 -0.31% -2,747,213.5
COMEX Gold Trust 12,299,954.1 Apr 26 12,299,954.1 Apr 25 0.0 0.00% -2,129,823.8
ETF Securities gold (ex-US) 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 -- -- -300,230.4
ZKB Physical Gold ** 5,194,396.8 Apr 19 5,194,396.8 Apr 19 -- -- 137,142.8
Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,119,618.0 Apr 26 3,119,618.0 Apr 25 0.0 0.00% -30,537.0
ETFS Physical Swiss Gold 844,902.3 Jan 06 844,902.3 Jan 06 -- -- 57,520.6
ABSA - NewGold ETF 442,757.4 Apr 26 442,761.1 Apr 25 -3.6 0.00% -80,074.3
Total 57,951,197.8 58,034,500.5 -83,302.7 -0.14% -5,093,215.6
SILVER
iShares Silver Trust 428,717,628.1 Apr 26 429,631,716.1 Apr 25 -914,088.0 -0.21% -38,743,650.7
Sprott Physical Silver 169,826,392.0 Apr 26 169,826,392.0 Apr 25 0.0 0.00% -703,657.0
ETF Securities silver ex-US 100,389,761.6 Nov 30 100,389,761.6 Nov 30 -- -- 27,135,104.7
ZKB Physical Silver 91,374,915.6 Apr 19 91,374,915.6 Apr 19 -- -- -4,742,422.0
ETFS Physical Silver Shares 6,111,152.0 Mar 20 6,111,152.0 Mar 20 -- -- -17,105,014.8
Total 796,419,849.3 797,333,937.3 -914,088.0 -0.11% -34,159,639.8
PLATINUM
ETFS Physical Platinum Shares 738,343.9 Mar 20 738,343.9 Mar 20 -- -- -10,582.1
ABSA - NewPlat ETF 405,526.6 Apr 26 405,530.5 Apr 25 -3.8 0.00% 53,040.1
ETF Securities platinum ex-US 617,330.8 Nov 30 617,330.8 Nov 30 -- -- 32,609.5
ZKB Physical Platinum 490,054.8 Apr 19 490,054.8 Apr 19 -- -- 16,604.6
Total 2,251,256.1 2,251,260.0 -3.8 0.00% 91,672.1
PALLADIUM
InvestPalladium ETF # 18,830.1 Apr 26 18,827.5 Apr 25 2.7 0.01% 14,246.9
ETFS Physical Palladium Shares 23,425.8 Mar 20 23,425.8 Mar 20 -- -- -134,305.6
ETF Securities palladium ex-US 111,915.0 Nov 30 111,915.0 Nov 30 -- -- -959.5
ZKB Physical Palladium 78,523.6 Apr 19 78,523.6 Apr 19 -- -- 13,282.4
ABSA - NewPalladium ETF **** 11,784.3 Apr 26 11,784.5 Apr 25 -0.1 0.00% 1,879.3
Total 244,478.8 244,476.3 2.5 0.00% -105,856.4
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.
(Bengaluru Commodities desk ; BLRCEEditorial@thomsonreuters.com)
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