Dec 9 (Reuters) - Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund $(ETF.AU)$, New York's SPDR Gold Trust , remained unchanged on Friday from Thursday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust , fell 0.29% 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 28,033,780.0 Dec 06 28,033,780.0 Dec 05 0.0 0.00% -1,469,260.2

COMEX Gold Trust 12,617,656.1 Dec 06 12,617,656.1 Dec 05 0.0 0.00% -1,812,121.8

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

ZKB Physical Gold ** 5,026,805.7 Nov 29 5,026,805.7 Nov 29 -- -- -30,448.3

Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,290,193.0 Dec 06 3,290,193.0 Dec 05 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 562,443.5 Dec 06 562,448.2 Dec 05 -4.6 0.00% 39,611.8

Total 59,669,523.1 59,669,527.7 -4.6 0.00% -3,374,890.3

SILVER

iShares Silver Trust 473,680,476.9 Dec 06 475,047,429.9 Dec 05 -1,366,953.0 -0.29% 6,219,198.1

Sprott Physical Silver 180,312,771.0 Dec 06 180,312,771.0 Dec 05 0.0 0.00% 9,782,722.0

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

ZKB Physical Silver 87,348,902.7 Nov 29 87,348,902.7 Nov 29 -- -- -8,768,434.9

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

Total 847,843,064.2 849,210,017.2 -1,366,953.0 -0.16% 17,263,575.1

PLATINUM

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

ABSA - NewPlat ETF  401,801.4 Dec 06 401,805.2 Dec 05 -3.8 0.00% 49,314.8

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

ZKB Physical Platinum 457,042.1 Nov 29 457,042.1 Nov 29 -- -- -16,408.1

Total 2,214,518.2 2,214,521.9 -3.8 0.00% 54,934.1

PALLADIUM

InvestPalladium ETF # 2,989.8 Dec 06 2,992.0 Dec 05 -2.2 -0.07% -1,593.4

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 97,373.6 Nov 29 97,373.6 Nov 29 -- -- 32,132.4

ABSA - NewPalladium ETF **** 7,918.8 Dec 06 7,918.9 Dec 05 -0.1 0.00% -1,986.2

Total 243,623.0 243,625.3 -2.2 0.00% -106,712.2

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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