TABLE — Holdings of SPDR Gold fall, iShares Silver rise

Oct 16 (Reuters)- Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund (ETF), New York's SPDR Gold Trust, fell 0.03% on Thursday from Wednesday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust rose 0.89% 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 33,884,281.5 Oct 15 33,893,447.8 Oct 14 -9,166.3 -0.03% 4,381,241.2 COMEX Gold Trust 14,889,172.3 Oct 15 14,887,292.9 Oct 14 1,879.4 0.01% 459,394.4 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 15 3,751,666.0 Oct 14 — — 3,705,505.0 ETFS Physical Swiss Gold 844,902.3 Jan 06 844,902.3 Jan 06 — — 57,520.6 ABSA — NewGold ETF 525,766.6 Oct 15 525,771.0 Oct 14 -4.3 0.00% 2,934.9 Total 67,847,521.4 -11,990.9 -0.02% 7,907,102.1 Silver iShares Silver Trust 498,598,800.4 Oct