I have been repeating that we are now in the end game for the crimex/lbma total domination of precious metal pricing . In particular I claim that when the final blow is struck that the criminal element will have established a significant position in physical. I think these numbers can give a clue that we may indeed be seeing evidence of that going on.
From Adrian’s reporting the last two days:
There were 32 delivery notices issued in the MAY gold contract. The MAY gold delivery notice total for the month is 818 notices or 81,800 ozs.
There were 493 delivery notices issued in the MAY silver contract. The total delivery notices for the month in silver stand at 3151 or 15.8 Mozs.
GS issued none and stopped 15, JPM issued 168 and stopped 208, Deutsche Bank issued none and stopped 22...
And from yesterday’s report;
There were 54 delivery notices issued in the MAY gold contract. The MAY gold delivery notice total for the month is 786 notices or 78,600 ozs.
There were 137 delivery notices issued in the MAY silver contract. The total delivery notices for the month in silver stand at 2658 or 13.3 Mozs.
GS issued none and stopped 4, JPM issued none and stopped 54, Deutsche Bank issued none and stopped 6...
GS, DB and JPM are net stoppers for themselves or their clients.