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The following report details changes from 11/23 @ ~8am to 11/24 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 65 to 65.
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1827 to 1788. Credit Suisse (-17), Perth (-12), Pamp (-6), RCM (-2), Sunshine V2 (-2)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 203 to 186. RCM (-15), JM secondary market (-1)
As expected, not much retail buying activity during Thanksgiving holiday.
 
The following report details changes from 11/24 @ ~9am to 11/25 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 65 to 65.
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1788 to 1764. Credit Suisse (-6), Pamp (-3), Sunshine V2 (-14)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 186 to 179. RCM (-3), JM secondary market (-1), Englehard secondary market (-2)
Sales volume for PMs still down over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. It's a retail frenzy for big screen TVs and mostly useless junk right now.
 
The following report details changes from 11/25 @ ~9am to 11/26 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 65 to 64. Pamp (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1764 to 1729. Apmex (-2), Pamp (-10), Pamp YotD (-1), Credit Suisse (-17), Perth (-4), Sunshine V2 (-1)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 179 to 261. JM "new" (+90), JM secondary market (-6), Englehard secondary market (-1)
Biggest restock of 100 ozt silver inventory since the 8th (when they were recovering from the inventory decimation).
 
The following report details changes from 11/26 @ ~8am to 11/27 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 64 to 43. Pamp (-20), JM "poured" (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1729 to 1598. Apmex (-9), Pamp (-63), Pamp YotD (-7), Credit Suisse (+8), Perth (-39), Argor-Heraeus (-2), RCM (-4), Sunshine V2 (-15)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 261 to 257. RCM (+39), JM "new" (-12), JM secondary market (-15), Englehard secondary market (-15)
Looks like Apmex's Cyber Monday free shipping deal helped sales volume return to healthy/normal levels. Sales of 10 ozt gold were very "solid".

While they also managed a significant restocking of RCM silver bars, sales volume was excellent, so the overall numbers didn't change much.
 
The following report details changes from 11/27 @ ~9am to 11/28 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 43 to 58. Pamp (+18), Perth (-3)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1598 to 1464. Apmex (-31), Pamp (-32), Pamp YotD (-13), Credit Suisse (-35), Perth (-2), Argor-Heraeus (-15), Sunshine V2 (-5)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 257 to 369. RCM (-17), JM "new" (+90), JM secondary market (+16), Englehard secondary market (+17), Englehard "struck" (+4),
Sales volume appears to have been strong for 1 ozt gold and 100 ozt silver (even though Apmex restocked the latter significantly).
 
The following report details changes from 11/28 @ ~8am to 11/29 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 58 to 43. Pamp (-4), Perth (-10), JM (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1464 to 1542. Apmex (+216), Pamp (-136), Pamp YotD (+10), Credit Suisse (+1), Perth (-9), Heraeus (-13), Argor-Heraeus (-6), RCM (-2), Sunshine V2 (+17)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 369 to 422. RCM (+49), JM "new" (-20), generic secondary market (+16), JM secondary market (-4), Englehard secondary market (+13), JM "vintage pressed" (+4), JM "matching serial #" (-3 sold out), Englehard "struck" (-2)
Sales volume appears to have been strong overall even as Apmex restocked a bit.
 
The following report details changes from 11/29 @ ~8am to 11/30 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 43 to 44. Pamp (+2), JM (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1542 to 2067. Apmex (-10), Pamp (+263), Pamp YotD (+20), Credit Suisse (+159), Perth (-1), Heraeus (-1), Argor-Heraeus (-5), RCM (+99), Sunshine V2 (-3)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 422 to 456. RCM (-6), JM "new" (-12), generic secondary market (+23), JM secondary market (+10), Englehard secondary market (+15), JM "Canada" (+3), JM "matching serial #" (+1)
Apmex restocked heavily on 1 ozt gold and secondary market offerings in 100 ozt silver. Hard to tell what sales volume looked like with so much restocking.
 
Just checked Tulving's site.He has NO fractional Au listed...
Pretty strange.


GOD BLESS & BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!!!
 
That's interesting. He specifically mentions gold though. No mention of silver.

It's been 3 days since the last update.

The following report details changes from 11/30 @ ~9am to 12/3 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 44 to 58. Pamp (+21), JM "pressed" (-1 sold out), JM "poured" (-4), Perth (-1), generic no assay (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2067 to 1660. Apmex (-16), Pamp (-115), Pamp YotD (-10), Credit Suisse (-201), Perth (-33), Heraeus (-17), Argor-Heraeus (-5), RCM (-4), Sunshine V2 (-6)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 456 to 400. RCM (-14), JM "new" (-25), generic secondary market (-4), JM secondary market (-1), Englehard secondary market (-7), JM "vintage pressed" (-5), JM "matching serial #" (-1 sold out)
Looks like surprisingly heavy sales volume over the weekend (compared to what I normally see anyway).
 
... US Mint gold and silver eagle sales exploded in November, coming in a 3,159,500 oz of ASE’s, the 3rd highest monthly total for 2012, and 136,500 oz of AGE’s, by far the highest monthly gold sales for the US Mint for 2012.

While silver eagle sales were strong, the story is in gold eagle sales, which roared back to life in the wake of Obama’s re-election. The silver/gold sales ratio narrowed to 23/1, after reaching such extremes as 74/1 as recently as August.

The 136,500 oz gold eagle sales total was nearly triple the October sales total of 59,000, and was up an astonishing nearly 4 fold year over year from Nov 2011, which saw 41,000 oz sold. November silver eagle sales were nearly as strong, up 2.5 fold year over year from 1,384,000 sold in November 2011.
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http://www.silverdoctors.com/gold-eagle-sales-explode-in-november-up-nearly-4-fold-yoy
 
The following report details changes from 12/3 @ ~8am to 12/4 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 58 to 52. Pamp (-10), JM "poured" (+5), Perth (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1660 to 1311. Apmex (-5), Pamp (-268), Pamp YotD (-1), Credit Suisse (-61), Perth (-16), Heraeus (+2), Argor-Heraeus (+11), Sunshine V2 (-11)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 400 to 376. RCM (-9), JM "new" (-13), JM secondary market (-2)
Strong sales volume continues...
 
The following report details changes from 12/4 @ ~8am to 12/5 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 52 to 48. Pamp (-1), JM "poured" (-2), generic no assay (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1311 to 1479. Apmex (-21), Pamp (+289), Pamp YotD (-17), Credit Suisse (-29), Perth (-24), Heraeus (-3), Argor-Heraeus (-8), RCM (-5), Sunshine V2 (-14)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 376 to 328. RCM (-35), JM "new" (-10), JM "vintage pressed" (+2), generic secondary market (-2)
Sales volume for gold slowed down a bit. Sales volume for 100 ozt silver looked very strong (~13% of inventory sold over the last 24 hours).
 
The following report details changes from 12/5 @ ~8am to 12/6 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 48 to 49. JM "poured" (+3), generic no assay (-2)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1479 to 1201. Apmex (-4), Pamp (-111), Pamp YotD (-6), Credit Suisse (-103), Perth (-29), Argor-Heraeus (-10), RCM (-3), Sunshine V2 (-12)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 328 to 285. RCM (-17), JM "new" (-2), JM secondary market (-5), Englehard secondary market (-15), Englehard "struck" (-3 sold out)
Sales volume still running strong for 1ozt gold and 100 ozt silver. Not sure if it occurred overnight or I just didn't notice earlier, but they adjusted some of the premiums on the 100 ozt silver - JM "new" +$.05 to $0.99 (equal to RCM now) and lowering premiums on all of the secondary market offerings (to $0.89 for JM/Englehard and $0.79 for the generics).
 
The following report details changes from 12/6 @ ~8am to 12/7 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 49 to 48. Pamp (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1201 to 1299. Apmex (-12), Pamp (-43), Pamp YotD (+46), Credit Suisse (+163), Perth (-16), Argor-Heraeus (-10 sold out), RCM (-30), Sunshine V2 (-4), generic no assay (+4)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 285 to 392. Apmex (+20), RCM (+57), JM "new" (+32), JM secondary market (-1), Englehard secondary market (-1)
Looks like Apmex restocked a bit. Hard to gauge, but looks to me like sales volume may have taken a dive compared to the last few days. I guess folks did not BTFD.
 
I wish I had more dry powder to shoot at this market, because I think we're coiling for a big jump.

Oh well. : - (
 
The following report details changes from 12/7 @ ~8am to 12/8 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 48 to 87. Pamp (+3), Perth (+35), generic no assay (+1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1299 to 1305. Apmex (-1), Pamp (-34), Pamp YotD (-4), Credit Suisse (-30), Perth (-45), Argor-Heraeus (+3), Sunshine V2 (+68), generic with assay (+44), Scotiabank (+5)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 392 to 381. Apmex (-2), RCM (-6), JM "new" (-1)
Sales volume was minimal as usual for a Friday. They restocked quite a bit on the 10 ozt gold.
 
The following report details changes from 12/8 @ ~9am to 12/9 @ ~10am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 87 to 87.
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1305 to 1268. Pamp (-2), Pamp YotD (-2), Credit Suisse (-22), Perth (-4), Sunshine V2 (-1), generic with assay (-2), generic no assay (-4 sold out)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 381 to 342. Apmex (-3), RCM (-21), JM "new" (-5), generic secondary market (-10)
Sales volume was practically non-existant for gold (not terribly unusual for a Saturday I think). Sales volume on 100 ozt silver was surprisingly brisk.
 
The following report details changes from 12/9 @ ~10am to 12/10 @ ~7am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 87 to 84. Pamp (-3)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1268 to 1220. Pamp (-20), Credit Suisse (-16), Perth (-8), Argor-Heraeus (-3 sold out)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 342 to 340. Apmex (-1), JM secondary market (-1)
Not much sales volume, but it was a Sunday so that's fairly typical.
 
The following report details changes from 12/10 @ ~7am to 12/11 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 84 to 80. Pamp (-4)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1220 to 1911. Apmex (-4), Pamp (+660), Pamp YotD (-6), Credit Suisse (+80), Perth (-54), Heraeus (-2 sold out), RCM (-10), Sunshine V2 (-6), generic no assay (-6)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 340 to 378. Apmex (-5), RCM (-14), JM "new" (-7), generic secondary market (+26), Englehard secondary market (+19), JM secondary market (+18)
Even though Apmex restocked significantly on 1 ozt gold and 100 ozt silver secondary market products, sales volume looked healthy again.
 
Checked Tulvings site.
He has 1/4 oz Au Phils & 1/10 oz GAE's.
First Fractional Au he's had in awhile.
 
Thanks BigJim.

The following report details changes from 12/11 @ ~9am to 12/12 @ ~10am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 80 to 78. Pamp (-1), Perth (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1911 to 1571. Apmex (-4), Pamp (-369), Pamp YotD (-3), Credit Suisse (-33), Perth (-6), RCM (+77), Sunshine V2 (-1), generic with assay (-2)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 378 to 350. Apmex (-9 sold out), RCM (-4), JM "new" (-6), generic secondary market (-10)
The inventory for Pamp 1 ozt gold has been crazy over the last two days. Not sure if that's really indicative of sales volume or just Apmex adjusting what's for sale on the website (for whatever reasons).
 
The following report details changes from 12/12 @ ~10am to 12/13 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 78 to 77. Pamp (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1571 to 1740. Apmex (-11), Pamp (+216), Pamp YotD (-11), Credit Suisse (-20), Perth (-2), RCM (-3)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 350 to 393. RCM (+49), JM "new" (-10), generic secondary market (+6), JM secondary market (-12), RCM "old style" (+3)
The inventory for Pamp 1 ozt gold still looking wonky to me. It's quite the yo-yo from day to day.
 
The following report details changes from 12/13 @ ~8am to 12/14 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 77 to 68. Pamp (-5), Perth (-3), JM (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 1740 to 2270. Apmex (+2), Pamp (-15), Credit Suisse (+209), Perth (+231), Heraeus (+99), RCM (-2), generic no assay (+7)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 393 to 315. Apmex (+10), RCM (+5), JM "new" (-18), generic secondary market (-6), JM secondary market (-22), Englehard secondary market (-46)
Huge restocking of 1 ozt gold over the last 24 hours. Hard to gauge sales volume for that category. 100 ozt silver was a different story. Huge sales volume in the secondary market offerings (lower premiums).
 
The following report details changes from 12/14 @ ~8am to 12/15 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 68 to 62. Pamp (-5), JM (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2270 to 2221. Apmex (-24), Pamp (-33), Pamp YotD (+47), Credit Suisse (-21), Perth (-8), Heraeus (-8), Scotiabank (+9), generic no assay (-2), Sunshine V2 (-3)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 315 to 274. Apmex (-10 sold out), RCM (-33), JM "new" (-6), JM secondary market (+5), Englehard secondary market (+4)
Sales volume in 100 ozt silver continues to be strong.

sa - I've been focusing on daily numbers/volume (from Apmex). It would be interesting to do some additional analysis to gauge weekly volume and see how it compares with what Mr. Haynes is reporting.
 
PMBug said:
sa - I've been focusing on daily numbers/volume (from Apmex). It would be interesting to do some additional analysis to gauge weekly volume and see how it compares with what Mr. Haynes is reporting.
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Absolutely. I don't know where to get more data, though. Maybe I can do some research in the new year. I'm currently very busy with multiple issues.
 
I have the data in my Excel file. It would be a matter of crunching some numbers (which I don't have time for right now). My data isn't perfect - restocking at times makes it difficult to really gauge sales volume on certain days.

The following report details changes from 12/15 @ ~8am to 12/16 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 62 to 60. Perth (-2)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2221 to 2172. Apmex (-9), Pamp (-5), Pamp YotD (-2), Credit Suisse (-15), Perth (-2), generic no assay (-5 sold out), generic with assay (-5), Sunshine V2 (-6)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 274 to 267. RCM (-1), JM "new" (-3), JM secondary market (-2)
 
The following report details changes from 12/16 @ ~9am to 12/17 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 60 to 58. Pamp (-1), JM (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2172 to 2144. Apmex (-3), Pamp (-7), Pamp YotD (-3), Credit Suisse (-10), Perth (-2), generic with assay (-2)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 267 to 262. RCM (-2), Englehard "first generation" (-1 sold out), Nevada (-1 sold out), Academy (-1)
Typical slow sales volume for a Sunday.
 
The following report details changes from 12/17 @ ~8am to 12/18 @ ~8am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 58 to 52. Pamp (-6)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2144 to 2640. Apmex (+8), Pamp (-50), Pamp YotD (-9), Credit Suisse (-11), Perth (-5), generic with assay (-3), Argor-Heraeus (+567)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 262 to 255. RCM (-4), JM "new" (-10), generic secondary market (+3), Englehard secondary market (+1), JM secondary market (+5), Englehard "bull logo" (-1 sold out), JM "Canada" (-1 sold out)
Slow sales volume and huge restocking of Argor-Heraeus 1ozt gold bars.
 
The following report details changes from 12/18 @ ~8am to 12/19 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 52 to 62. Pamp (+10), Perth (-1), JM (+3), generic no assay (-2 sold out)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2640 to 2322. Apmex (+186), Pamp (-95), Pamp YotD (+44), Credit Suisse (-113), Perth (-7), generic with assay (+50), Argor-Heraeus (-368), Scotiabank (-6), RCM (-3), generic no assay (+4), Sunshine V2 (-11)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 255 to 250. RCM (-25), JM "new" (+20), generic secondary market (-1), Englehard secondary market (-2), Heraeus "poured" (+3)
Whoa. Lot's of volatility in the inventory for this reporting period. Not sure what to make of the numbers for 1ozt gold. The Argor-Heraeus inventory especially looks wacky - yo-yoing from yesterday's big addition.
 
The following report details changes from 12/19 @ ~9am to 12/20 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 62 to 63. Pamp (-1), JM "pressed" (+1), Englehard "loaf" (+1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2322 to 2057. Apmex (-3), Pamp (-77), Pamp YotD (-10), Credit Suisse (-123), Perth (-4), generic with assay (+41), Argor-Heraeus (-40), RCM (-45), generic no assay (-4 sold out)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 250 to 465. Apmex (+241), RCM (-11), JM "new" (-9), Englehard secondary market (-1), JM secondary market (-5)
The volatility continues. In 1ozt gold, the inventory numbers for RCM and "generic with assay" look like they were transposed.

Apmex is offering a new batch of 100ozt silver bars. The last time they had more than 100 of these bars in stock was last August.

It appears as if sales volume overall is very healthy. Some people are BTFD.
 
It's been a week since the last report. Sorry folks. Took some time off for the holiday season...

The following report details changes from 12/20 @ ~9am to 12/27 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 63 to 87. Pamp (+25), JM "poured" (-2), Englehard "loaf" (-1 sold out), Perth (-8), generic no assay (+10)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2057 to 2247. Apmex (+57), Pamp (+80), Pamp YotD (-44), Credit Suisse (-24), Perth (-58), Heraeus (-5), Argor-Heraeus (-22), Scotiabank (-6 sold out), generic with assay (-52), RCM (+270), Sunshine V2 (-6)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 465 to 361. Apmex (-78), RCM (+56), JM "new" (-22), generic secondary market (-36), JM secondary market (-5 sold out), Englehard secondary market (-6 sold out), JM "vintage pressed" (-2 sold out), Heraeus "poured" (-2), Academy (-1)
Since it's been a week, you really can't judge sales volume at all, but I do notice that Apmex has sold out of several 100 ozt silver bar options (nearly all of the "secondary market" offerings).
 
The following report details changes from 12/27 @ ~9am to 12/28 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 87 to 83. Pamp (-3), Perth (-1)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2247 to 2665. Apmex (-5), Pamp (+175), Pamp YotD (+42), Credit Suisse (+254), Perth (-20), Argor-Heraeus (-4), generic with assay (-22), Sunshine V2 (-2)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 361 to 438. Apmex (-7), RCM (+35), JM "new" (+40), JM secondary market (+8), Englehard secondary market (+2), Sunshine (-1)
 
Bill Haynes:
... this was a 3 day week for us because of the holiday schedule. In that 3 days we did more business than what we have done in any single week in years. The buying is monstrous in here. As an example, we had one buyer which completed a transaction for $6.8 million.

Those type of players are in here making large physical purchases of gold and silver. Eric, there’s no doubt about it, there’s fear. There is fear and there is acceptance that the West is in real trouble here. So, we are seeing unimaginable buying here of both physical gold and silver.

This is the type of buying you see when you are nearing the end a long period of digestion, and you are about ready to break out on the upside....
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http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldn...strous_Amounts_Of_Physical_Gold_&_Silver.html
 
It's been 2 days since the last report.

The following report details changes from 12/28 @ ~9am to 12/30 @ ~9am:
  • 10 ozt gold bars - from 83 to 69. Pamp (-11), Perth (-3)
  • 1 ozt gold bars - from 2665 to 2498. Apmex (-27), Pamp (-53), Pamp YotD (-21), Credit Suisse (-5), Perth (-8), Heraeus (-2), Argor-Heraeus (-1), generic with assay (-39), Sunshine V2 (-8)
  • 100 ozt silver bars - from 438 to 413. Apmex (-28), RCM (-29), JM "new" (+39), JM secondary market (-5), Englehard secondary market (-1), Academy (-1)
 
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