Bank of England refuses comment on huge discrepancy in custodial gold reports

``The Bank of England refuses to explain what appears to be a huge discrepancy in its accounting of the gold it holds in custody, a difference of as much as 1,200 tonnes between the total reported in the bank's annual report in February and the total reported in a "virtual tour" of the bank posted this month at the bank's Internet site.'' -- Actually, they did comment, by saying that the gold bar numbers are "deliberately nonspecific", in other words, that instead of missing a huge amount of gold since this spring, they may simply be lying...