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 1/25/02
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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 | 1/25/02 | Week
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|March '02 5,067 -1,948 5,396 -1,836 29,180 -237
|May '02 6,809 -159 2,578 -99 12,712 216
|July '02 12,833 -293 2,869 417 11,942 591
|October '02 2,047 42 193 0 477 28
|December '02 3,076 55 331 0 9,366 1,219
|March '03 1,246 17 0 0 1,113 46
|May '03 865 29 80 16 1,006 0
|July '03 1,037 20 370 0 625 20
|October '03 169 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 65 0
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| Totals: 33,358 -2,237 11,817 -1,502 66,496 1,883
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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
|1/31/02
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