Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 5
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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 2/1/02
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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 | 2/1/02 | Week
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|March '02 2,991 -2,116* 3,242 -2,139* 24,582 -4,598
|May '02 6,638 -171 2,567 -11 14,643 1,931
|July '02 12,643 -223* 2,957 88 12,658 716
|October '02 2,304 257 151 -42 468 -9
|December '02 2,929 -147 427 96 10,585 1,219
|March '03 1,447 201 0 0 1,207 94
|May '03 921 56 80 0 1,007 1
|July '03 1,110 73 370 0 630 5
|October '03 259 90 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 64 -1
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| Totals: 31,451 -1,980* 9,794 -2,008* 65,854 -642
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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
|2/7/02
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