Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 4
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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 1/24/03
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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 | 1/24/03 | Week
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|March '03 7,652 -1,700* 2,909 483 41,857 -8,123
|May '03 8,992 -735 2,319 97 21,529 1,520
|July '03 15,667 -309 622 -54 7,864 -42
|October '03 4,212 -7 340 -5 729 -62
|December '03 3,600 -270 1,576 15 7,501 861
|March '04 517 -15 21 0 1,379 336
|May '04 700 0 15 0 296 0
|July '04 996 0 14 0 456 209
|October '04 28 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 283 0 21 0 17 2
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| Totals: 42,647 -3,036* 7,851 536 81,629 -5,299
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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 (646) 746-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|1/30/03
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