Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 1
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| "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
| reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 1/3/03
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| (In Contracts)
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| | | Open Futures
| | Call Cotton Based New York | Contracts - New York
| | | Cotton Exchange
|Futures |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
| | Unfixed | Change | Unfixed | Change | At | Change
|Based | Call | From | Call | From | Close | From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 1/3/03 | Week
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|March '03 11,134 -351 2,592 -38 49,226 1,775
|May '03 10,539 -220 2,165 -361 17,140 779
|July '03 16,239 -124 616 5 6,979 300
|October '03 3,987 12 297 0 731 0
|December '03 3,970 -29 1,496 0 5,246 343
|March '04 532 -51 21 0 580 0
|May '04 569 61 15 0 270 0
|July '04 886 81 14 0 247 0
|October '04 28 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 172 -14 21 0 15 5
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| Totals: 48,056 -635 7,251 -394 80,435 3,202
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|1/9/03
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