Dec 18 (Reuters) - Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund $(ETF.AU)$, New York's SPDR Gold Trust , remained unchanged on Tuesday from Monday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust , fell 0.24% 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

GOLD $(OZ)$ (OZ) (OZ) Change (OZ)

SPDR Gold Trust 27,784,505.5 Dec 17 27,784,505.5 Dec 16 0.0 0.00% -1,718,534.8

COMEX Gold Trust 12,625,208.5 Dec 17 12,625,208.5 Dec 16 0.0 0.00% -1,804,569.4

ETF Securities gold (ex-US) 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 -- -- -300,230.4

ZKB Physical Gold ** 4,979,716.3 Dec 13 4,979,716.3 Dec 13 -- -- -77,537.7

Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,290,193.0 Dec 17 3,290,193.0 Dec 16 0.0 0.00% 140,038.0

ETFS Physical Swiss Gold 844,902.3 Jan 06 844,902.3 Jan 06 -- -- 57,520.6

ABSA - NewGold ETF 564,246.5 Dec 17 564,265.0 Dec 16 -18.5 0.00% 41,414.7

Total 59,382,514.5 59,382,533.0 -18.5 0.00% -3,661,898.9

SILVER

iShares Silver Trust 457,414,907.0 Dec 17 458,508,299.0 Dec 16 -1,093,392.0 -0.24% -10,046,371.8

Sprott Physical Silver 180,613,426.0 Dec 17 180,613,426.0 Dec 16 0.0 0.00% 10,083,377.0

ETF Securities silver ex-US 100,389,761.6 Nov 30 100,389,761.6 Nov 30 -- -- 27,135,104.7

ZKB Physical Silver 87,170,112.4 Dec 13 87,170,112.4 Dec 13 -- -- -8,947,225.2

ETFS Physical Silver Shares 6,111,152.0 Mar 20 6,111,152.0 Mar 20 -- -- -17,105,014.8

Total 831,699,359.0 832,792,751.0 -1,093,392.0 -0.13% 1,119,869.9

PLATINUM

ETFS Physical Platinum Shares 738,343.9 Mar 20 738,343.9 Mar 20 -- -- -10,582.1

ABSA - NewPlat ETF  398,890.1 Dec 17 398,905.2 Dec 16 -15.0 0.00% 46,403.6

ETF Securities platinum ex-US 617,330.8 Nov 30 617,330.8 Nov 30 -- -- 32,609.5

ZKB Physical Platinum 446,561.3 Dec 13 446,561.3 Dec 13 -- -- -26,888.9

Total 2,201,126.1 2,201,141.1 -15.0 0.00% 41,542.1

PALLADIUM

InvestPalladium ETF # 2,994.7 Dec 17 2,991.9 Dec 13 2.8 0.09% -1,588.5

ETFS Physical Palladium Shares 23,425.8 Mar 20 23,425.8 Mar 20 -- -- -134,305.6

ETF Securities palladium ex-US 111,915.0 Nov 30 111,915.0 Nov 30 -- -- -959.5

ZKB Physical Palladium 99,537.9 Dec 13 99,537.9 Dec 13 -- -- 34,296.8

ABSA - NewPalladium ETF **** 7,918.0 Dec 17 7,918.3 Dec 16 -0.3 0.00% -1,987.0

Total 245,791.4 245,788.9 2.5 0.00% -104,543.8

The figures above are those reported to Reuters by the organizations involved by telephone or email on the date shown, or those that are publicly available on their websites.

** ZKB physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium funds are fully backed by physical precious metal and investors are entitled to physical delivery of them.

*** Shareholders in the GAM Gold fund can elect to hold "A class" shares, which are fully backed by physical gold. Investors in that class are entitled to physical delivery of the precious metal. Investors may also elect to hold "AX" class shares, which are fully backed by physical gold. Investors in that class are not entitled to physical delivery of the precious metal.

**** Absa Capital's NewPalladium Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) was listed on March 27, 2014 and is fully backed with South African palladium.

# Standard Bank's AfricaPalladium ETF, South Africa's first listed palladium exchange traded fund, debuted on March 24, 2014. ((((For help: Click "Contact Us" in your desk top, click here HELP or call 1-800-738-8377 for Reuters Products and +1-888-463-3383 for Thomson products)) ))

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