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 1/11/02
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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 | 1/11/02 | Week
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|March '02 9,169 -3,552 9,410 -2,637* 29,452 -481
|May '02 7,314 -97 2,645 0* 12,366 921
|July '02 13,374 -294* 2,325 104* 10,967 433
|October '02 2,046 -31 203 -37 424 -3
|December '02 3,058 -20 328 6 7,474 954
|March '03 1,217 54 0 0 1,037 36
|May '03 845 66* 52 3 1,006 43
|July '03 1,017 36 370 250 593 63
|October '03 169 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 60 60
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| Totals: 38,418 -3,838* 15,333 -2,311* 63,389 2,026
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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.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|1/17/02
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