TABLE — Holdings of SPDR Gold rise, iShares Silver fall

Sept 24 (Reuters)- Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund (ETF), New York's SPDR Gold Trust, edged up 0.08% on Wednesday from Tuesday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust fell 0.16% 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 Change GOLD (OZ) (OZ) (OZ) Change (OZ) SPDR Gold Trust 33,978,343.7 Sep 23 33,950,837.9 Sep 22 27,505.8 0.08% 4,475,303.4 COMEX Gold Trust 14,924,323.0 Sep 23 14,913,044.8 Sep 22 11,278.3 0.08% 494,545.1 ETF Securities gold (ex-US) 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 — — -300,230.4 ZKB Physical Gold * 4,668,750.2 Sep 18 4,689,323.6 Sep 11 -20,573.4 -0.44% -388,503.8 Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,751,666.0 Sep 23 3,751,666.0 Sep 22 0.0 0.00% 3,705,505.0 ETFS Physical Swiss Gold 844,902.3 Jan 06 844,902.3 Jan 06 — — 57,520.6 ABSA — NewGold ETF 525,866.0 Sep 22 525,870.4 Sep 21 -4.3 0.00% 3,034.3 Total 67,987,593.6 18,206.3 0.03% 8,047,174.2 Silver iShares Silver Trust 493,533,