Submitted by cpowell on 11:56PM ET Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Section: Daily
Dispatches
By Robert Lambourne
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
The Bank for International Settlements has just published, on the same
day, its monthly statement of account for March 2018 as well as its
monthly statement for April 2018:
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc180331.pdf
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc180430.pdf
From these statements it is possible to deduce that during March the BIS
reduced by about 165 tonnes its use of gold swaps and other gold-
related derivatives, but subsequently in April the bank's use of gold
swaps and other gold-related derivatives increased by about 60 tonnes.
It seems that the BIS is continuing to trade actively in gold
derivatives and the amounts disclosed each month have been following an
irregular pattern.
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The information provided in the BIS monthly statements is not sufficient
to calculate a precise amount of gold-related derivatives, including
swaps, but it appears that the bank's total exposure as of April 30,
2018, was 420 tonnes of gold.
This compares to estimates of 360 tonnes, 525 tonnes, 580 tonnes, 450
tonnes, 600 tonnes, and 570 tonnes, respectively, at the February,
January, December, November, and October month-ends and an audited
swaps figure of 438 tonnes as of March 31, 2017.
When it comes to its activities in the gold market, the BIS provides
little information on what it is doing, why, and for whom. This lack of
transparency fuels suspicion that the bank's trading is related to
official efforts to suppress the gold price.
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Robert Lambourne, a consultant for GATA, is a retired business executive
in the United Kingdom who studies the activity of the Bank for
International Settlements in gold market.
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