"In ton terms, this means that after declining below 6000 tons in January, for the first time since FDR's infamous gold confiscation spree, the total physical gold held at the NY Fed dropped another 9.6 tons in July, down to 5,950 tons.

This is the lowest amount of gold held by the NY Fed in custody in decades, is the 18th consecutive month of flat or declining gold, and when added to previous outflows, amounts to 192 tons of gold withdrawn in the past 12 months, and a whopping 246 tons pulled since the start of 2014."