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 1/4/02
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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 | 1/4/02 | Week
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|March '02 12,721 -497* 12,134 -681* 29,933 -80
|May '02 7,411 -93* 2,630 -170 11,445 851
|July '02 13,674 78 2,121 -34* 10,534 489
|October '02 2,077 16 240 34 427 4
|December '02 3,078 29* 322 0 6,520 111
|March '03 1,163 0 0 0 1,001 49
|May '03 809 0 49 0 963 83
|July '03 981 0 120 0 530 0
|October '03 169 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 42,292 -467* 17,616 -851* 61,363 1,507
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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 (201) 234-6922.
|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|1/10/02
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