Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 7
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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 2/14/03
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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 | 2/14/03 | Week
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|March '03 3,081 -2,718 1,162 -1,278 14,800 -22,220
|May '03 9,587 393 2,174 59 52,689 19,891
|July '03 15,490 -42 668 28 10,719 1,589
|October '03 4,314 -5* 333 -11 769 5
|December '03 4,093 280* 2,538 473 8,654 313
|March '04 1,044 157 81 0 1,486 6
|May '04 1,019 74 15 0 326 0
|July '04 1,416 122 14 0 477 20
|October '04 292 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 546 258 21 0 60 0
|March '05 97 97 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 40,979 -1,384* 7,020 -729 89,981 -396
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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) 747-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|2/20/03
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