TABLE — Holdings of SPDR Gold rise, iShares Silver fall

Oct 13 (Reuters)- Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund (ETF), New York's SPDR Gold Trust, rose 0.22% on Monday from Friday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust fell 0.11% 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 33,932,503.9 Oct 12 33,859,170.9 Oct 09 73,333.0 0.22% 4,429,463.6 COMEX Gold Trust 14,913,604.9 Oct 12 14,913,604.9 Oct 09 0.0 0.00% 483,827.0 ETF Securities gold (ex-US) 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 — — -300,230.4 ZKB Physical Gold * 4,657,990.3 Oct 09 4,662,690.0 Oct 02 -4,699.6 -0.10% -399,263.6 Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,751,666.0 Oct 12 3,751,666.0 Oct 09 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 526,701.4 Oct 12 526,714.4 Oct 09 -13.0 0.00% 3,869.6 Total 67,921,111.2 68,620.3 0.10% 7,980,691.8 Silver iShares Silver Trust 493,407,000.3 Oct 12 4