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Gold reserves in London vaults increase in April due to the return of US bullion

London Bullion Market Association reported on Thursday that the amount of gold in London vaults at the end April was 8,536 metric tonnes, an increase of 0.6% over the previous month. This is because more precious metal was returned to London from New York after being dislocated. After months of being high, the premium between the COMEX gold spot prices and the most actively traded COMEX futures prices was normalized in April when the Trump Administration excluded precious metals from the broader U.S. tariffs. In the period between December and March, market players increased their gold deliveries to the U.S. to cover COMEX positions in anticipation of possible import tariffs by the U.S. These additional stocks were sourced from Switzerland and London, which is the largest gold trading hub in the world. This reduced liquidity on the London market. This led London's bullion traders to borrow gold from the central banks that store their bullion at the Bank of England vaults.

The LBMA, the London Market Authority, said that while gold stocks at Bank of England decreased at a similar rate to March, the number of holdings in commercial vaults throughout London increased again by a month.

This trend confirms that gold continues to leave CME's warehouses, as the tariff fears have eased and arbitrage possibilities disappeared.

COMEX gold stocks According to COMEX data on Wednesday, the outflows were 925,559 troy-ounces (28.8 tonnes) valued at $3.1 billion.

The LBMA reported that there were 22,859 tonnes of silver in London vaults as of April, an increase by 3.3 % compared to March. The LBMA reported that silver holdings in London increased for the first since October 2024. (Reporting and editing by Paul Simao; Polina Devtt)

(source: Reuters)