Gold Traders Are Paid Not to Redeem Comex EFPs, London Sources Say

by Chris Powell
GATA.org

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What the heck are those mysterious “exchange for physicals,” the mechanisms by which contracts to buy gold on the New York Commodities Exchange are neither fulfilled by delivery on the Comex nor settled for cash there but transported for supposed delivery elsewhere?

The mechanism long has been incorporated by the Comex trading system but was described as an “emergency” procedure undertaken upon agreement by buyer and seller — except that the use of this “emergency” procedure has exploded in the last year, involving tens of thousands of contracts and, nominally, hundreds of tonnes of gold.

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