Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 6
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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 2/8/02
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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 | 2/8/02 | Week
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|March '02 2,394 -597 2,555 -687 21,862 -2,720
|May '02 6,259 -379 2,565 -2 18,042 3,399
|July '02 12,181 -462 3,181 224 13,520 862
|October '02 2,271 -33 151 0 554 86
|December '02 2,843 -86 427 0 11,370 785
|March '03 1,464 17 0 0 1,311 104
|May '03 921 0 80 0 1,107 100
|July '03 1,110 0 370 0 640 10
|October '03 259 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 83 19
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| Totals: 29,911 -1,540 9,329 -465 68,499 2,645
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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
|2/14/02
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