Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 3
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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 1/18/02
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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 | 1/18/02 | Week
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|March '02 7,015 -2,154 7,232 -2,178 29,417 -35
|May '02 6,968 -346 2,677 32 12,496 130
|July '02 13,126 -248 2,452 127 11,351 384
|October '02 2,005 -41 193 -10 449 25
|December '02 3,021 -37 331 3 8,147 673
|March '03 1,229 12 0 0 1,067 30
|May '03 836 -9 64 12 1,006 0
|July '03 1,017 0 370 0 605 12
|October '03 169 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 65 5
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| Totals: 35,595 -2,823 13,319 -2,014 64,613 1,224
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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 (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|1/24/02
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