Flows this week

The Moscow Exchange will begin trading of deliverable gold futures on its Derivatives Market.

The new contract will link Moscow Exchange’s Precious Metals and Derivatives markets as gold will be delivered via the Precious Metals Market spot section.

UK flows for August - strong flows to ETFs

Imagine a gold product - with characteristics of physical gold and gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as the 24/7 nature and security of the bitcoin network. That was the aim of three firms behind the DGLD token

The marriage of blockchain technology’s open truthfulness with gold’s alluring scarcity makes for a highly transparent, secure and liquid financial instrument with which to hedge against currency depreciation, allowing average consumers and retail investors to hold onto the value of their savings.

Flows this week

SGE withdrawals were 117 tonnes in September

India's imports for August

The LBMA is an association so dominated by bullion banks that it might be more correctly called the London Bullion Bank Market Association. These banks position themselves as intermediaries in the flow of everything in the precious metal markets from trading to clearing, and from securitizing to lending and borrowing, all within a fractional reserve system which creates derivative paper gold and paper silver out of thin air using a leveraged system of unallocated precious metal accounts unconnected to the physical delivery of real gold or real silver.

In September, global gold-backed ETFs and similar products had US$3.9bn of net inflows across all regions, increasing their collective gold holdings by 75.2t to 2,808 tonnes(t), the highest levels of all time. Holdings surpassed late 2012 levels, at which time the gold price was near US$1,700/oz, 18% higher than current levels. Notably, the gold-backed ETF landscape is vastly different than in 2012 when two-thirds of global holdings were concentrated in North America. Today, North American- and European-listed funds make up 52% and 44% of global holdings respectively, with the remainder coming from funds listed in Asia and other regions.