JAN 13/DOW DROPS 364 POINTS/NASDAQ DROPS 160 POINTS/TENSIONS BETWEEN POLAND AND THE EU INTENSIFY/CRUDE OIL CRASHES BELOW 30.00 DOLLARS ON BOTH BRENT AND WTI/FIRST IT WAS BALTIC DRY INDEX AT RECOR…

Gold: $1087.50 down $1.90 (comex closing time)
Silver $14.14 down 44 cents
In the access market 5:15 pm
Gold $1093.50
Silver: $14.16
At the gold comex today, we had a poor delivery day, registering 0 notices for nil ounces. Silver saw 0 notices for nil oz.
Several months ago the comex had 303 tonnes of total gold. Today, the total inventory rests at 199.63 tonnes for a loss of 103 tonnes over that period.
In silver, the open interest fell by 268 contracts down to 166,172. In ounces, the OI is still represented by .831 billion oz or 118% of annual global silver production (ex Russia ex China).
In silver we had 0 notices served upon for nil oz.
In gold, the total comex gold OI fell by another monstrous 9979 contracts to 397,565 contracts as gold was down $11.60 in yesterday’s trading.
Today both the gold comex and the silver comex are in severe stress.
We had another addition into inventory at the GLD ( a deposit of 2.38 tonnes, / thus the inventory rests tonight at 654.06 tonnes. The appetite for gold coming from China is depleting not only gold from the LBMA and GLD but also the comex is bleeding gold. Our 670 tonnes of rock bottom inventory in GLD gold has been broken. It looks to me that China has taken the last amounts of physical gold from the GLD. I guess the only place left for China to receive physical gold, after they deplete the GLD will be the FRBNY and the comex. In silver,/we had no changes to inventory/Inventory rests at 316.368 million oz.
First, here is an outline of what will be discussed tonight:

This post was published at Harvey Organ Blog on January 13, 2016.