TABLE — Holdings of SPDR Gold steady, iShares Silver rise

Oct 15 (Reuters)- Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund (ETF), New York's SPDR Gold Trust, were unchanged on Wednesday from Tuesday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust edged up 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 33,893,447.8 Oct 14 33,893,447.8 Oct 13 0.0 0.00% 4,390,407.5 COMEX Gold Trust 14,887,292.9 Oct 14 14,913,604.9 Oct 12 -26,312.0 -0.18% 457,515.0 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 14 3,751,666.0 Oct 13 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 525,771.0 Oct 14 525,775.3 Oct 13 -4.3 0.00% 2,939.2 Total 67,854,812.7 -31,016.0 -0.05% 7,914,393.3 Silver iShares Silver Trust 494,219