Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 2
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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 1/10/03
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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 | 1/10/03 | Week
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|March '03 10,385 -749 2,517 -75 50,498 1,272
|May '03 10,313 -226 2,131 -34 18,794 1,654
|July '03 16,428 189 621 5 7,760 781
|October '03 4,253 266 297 0 723 -8
|December '03 4,094 124 1,526 30 6,387 1,141
|March '04 798 266 21 0 914 334
|May '04 836 267 15 0 275 5
|July '04 889 3 14 0 247 0
|October '04 28 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 282 110 21 0 15 0
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| Totals: 48,306 250 7,177 -74 85,614 5,179
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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
|1/16/03
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