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The Deliverable supply of gold according to the Commodities Exchange (COMEX) and CME = Registered + 50% of Eligible.
This means that there is far less gold than imagined in COMEX vaults to meet gold futures contracts deliveries.
CME’s latest letter to the CFTC, dated 9 December 2024 (after the NY-LN spread had already started to blow out), says that: “Deliverable supply is calculated as the sum of total reported registered gold with total reported eligible gold, after taking a 50% discount for eligible gold.”