Silver Report 260516

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May 16 Silver Vaults (ozt)​


PSLV600K
SLV (NYC)3M
SLV (London)3M
COMEX

COMEX withdrawals remain ~26% of May26 delivery requests
COMEX [R] run rate
COMEX [E] run rate
SFE run rate (as of May 15)
SGE run rate (as of May 8)

COMEX 5-14​






401K ozt (12.5t) moved from [E] to [R] in Loomis

COMEX Run Rates​


Remaining Vault Stock = 315.1M ozt (80.8M [R], 234.3M [E])

Net "withdraw" rate through last 5 days = 558K/day DEPOSIT

@ 52% [R], run rate =

@ 100% [E], run rate upper bound =

@ 100% [E], run rate lower bound =

@ 100% [E] run rate mid point/avg =

COMEX May26​


May26 contract cumulative deliveries = 5,505
May26 contract equivalent ozt = 27,535,000
Actual withdrawals in May ozt = 7,120,588.89

May withdrawals remain ~26% of May26 delivery requests. See here for historical context.

COMEX Commentary​


Thursday's 0 ozt net withdrawal grows the 5 DMA deposit rate slightly. Run rates remain indeterminate with a net deposit rate.

Including Thursday, there have been four days of zero deposit + withdrawal activity reported since April 1. Previous to April 1, were no days (none, zero) with zero deposit + withdrawal activity going back all the way to October 1 (and likely beyond that - that's just where my data set ends [or begins] currently).

@AGgregator may have a more complete COMEX data set to review for this anomolous behavior.

SLV Share Lending​


10M Shares available

Borrow fee rose from 0.39% to 0.41%

Interactive Brokers reports minimal borrowing activity yesterday.

SLV Assets​


Blackrock:1.25M shares*
JPM (NYC):3M ozt (93.3t)
JPM (London):3M ozt (93.3t)

*The iShares website is not working this morning and I had to look up the share data from a 3rd party website, so I'm not 100% confident that the share data is correct.

As expected, JPM effected the SLV's curious mid-month silver swap yesterday.

If the share data is correct, SLV increased shares significantly without a corresponding increase in ozt to back them.

London vault stock (407.3M ozt) has bounced back well above the ~399M ozt threshold of the last two weeks.

PSLV​


units
600K ozt (18.7t)
ozt/units ratio 0.34111

PSLV plays a bit more catch up with vault stock inflow to match recent units creation. They would need to add ~1.4M ozt more to bring the ozt/units ratio back to .3434, but the ratio is now higher than it has been since March 30.

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Previous report: https://www.pmbug.com/threads/silver-report-260515.8932
 
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