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| 3 Important <b>Gold</b> Charts - Transparent Holdings Fall As <b>Bullion</b> Goes <b>...</b> Posted: 02 Sep 2014 01:37 PM PDT 3 Important Gold Charts - Transparent Holdings Fall As Bullion Goes East To Russia and China Chart 1: Changes in Holdings (millions of oz) vs Gold Price
Chart 2: Total Ounces by Source 2004-2014 While there would obviously be some data issues in collecting gold holdings data from periods such as the 1970s and 1980s, more importantly, there was a very limited choice of accessible gold vehicles and the futures markets were in their infancy. It was only since the early 2000s that the choice of gold vehicles, and therefore high quality holdings information, became available.
Interestingly, as the gold price peaked in 2011, the amount of gold flowing into ETFs, mutual funds and other public repositories kept increasing and only peaked In January 2013 as the gold price began its fall from $1,700/oz through to $1,300/oz. Chart 2 shows a ten year view from 2004 to 2014 and drills down into the sources that make up the transparent gold holdings totals. These sources include everything from COMEX and the GLD ETF to the iShares ETF and the Central Fund of Canada, and also publically available data on some of the smaller ETFs and online gold retailers. While the holdings represented by the futures exchange did grow over the 2000s, their growth was quite stable. By far the largest growth in trackable gold holdings was in the GLD and the other large ETFs such as the ETF Securities and iShares products. Gold holdings in GLD grew consistently from 2005 to 2009, but then rocketed up from 2009 to 2011 before stabilising until the end of 2013. As has been documented elsewhere, there was then a huge outflow from GLD. The trend in the other ETFs is similar although on a smaller scale. Chart 3: Total Weight (millions of oz) vs Total Value
The question is where did all this gold come from? Some would obviously have been from new mine supply, some probably from central bank sales, and some from dis-hoarding out of private hoards. Although HNW investors were more likely to have been buying gold in the years immediately preceding the global financial crisis and almost certainly were buying during the financial crisis. An equally important question is that now that the public repositories have lost 30 million ounces in under 2 years, where has all that gold gone? It would be realistic to assume that some has gone to China and the Far East since there has been evidence of such flows. Equally its possible that some of the gold that has disappeared from the ETFs and other products and sources has again gone back into private hands or else is being accumulated by the official sector such as emerging market central banks such as the Russian central bank and the People's Bank of China (PBOC). MARKET UPDATE Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,287.25, EUR 979.34 and GBP 774.47 per ounce. Yesterday's PM fix was USD 1,286.50, EUR 979.44 and GBP 773.84 per ounce. The US markets were closed for a national holiday yesterday. Gold in Singapore fell by $10 in illiquid trading prior to further falls in London which saw gold fall to $1,270/oz. Silver slipped $0.30 or 1.55% to $19.17 per ounce in London trading. Platinum is down 0.35% to $1,420 after falling from $1,426. Palladium failed to hold above the key $900 level and fell 2% today to $890 from $909 yesterday. Despite ongoing significant geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and elsewhere, gold has been pushed lower and was 1.6% lower today to $1,270/oz. Silver, likewise, has followed gold lower. This looks like a final wash out as the price falls today have become headline news and sentiment is appalling. As the old adage goes never catch a falling knife and buyers should hold out for a day or two of gains or a weekly higher close. However, given the fundamentals a real opportunity is set to presnt itself - potentially the last great buying opportunity of this phase of the bull market. Prudent money is allocating to gold bullion in the realisation that, as the witch in Macbeth muttered, "something wicked this way comes".
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