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Market | This month | Last month | Difference |
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LBMA (total) | 24,581 | 24,646 | -65 |
London vaulted ETFs* | 21,152 | 20,329 | 823 |
LBMA-ETFs (free float)* | 3,429 | 4,313 | -884 |
COMEX | 16,509.29 | 16,118.83 | 390.46 |
SLV NYC Vault | 3,209.14 | 3,209.14 | 0.00 |
COMEX-SLV (free float) | 13,300.15 | 12,909.69 | 390.46 |
SFE/SGE | *2,406.613 | 2,479.606 | -72.993 |
PSLV | 6,216.872 | 6,065.816 | 151.056 |
LBMA said:These figures provide an important insight into London's ability to underpin the physical OTC market.
Citibank's house account bought 1,155 contracts (5.8 million oz) of silver yesterday (Oct 9). That alone would have been a single day record for silver bought during the delivery period. The fact this occurred during an inactive contract (October) is even more spectacular.
But wait, there’s more … Marex and StoneX customer accounts plus a few other players bought an additional 272 contracts (1.36 million oz) pushing the total number of contracts to 1,427 (7.14 million oz).
This 1,427 contract single day activity exceeds the TOTAL for each of the inactive month contracts during 2024. For comparison, those 2024 inactive contracts averaged 1,297 for the entire contract. So ... now a single day activity bests an entire month's activity.
Cumulative deliveries on the Oct contract now total 24.7 million oz setting a record for inactive contracts. That tops the previous high set by the Feb 2025 contract.
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As in owners of paper wanting actual metal ? Metal the paper pushers dont actually have ? That sort of squeeze ?Sure looks like the squeeze has begun.
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People ... aren't happy with silver. They say it's too heavy and takes up too much space. ...