Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 8
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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 2/21/03
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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 | 2/21/03 | Week
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|March '03 315 -2,766 159 -1,003 1,039 -13,761
|May '03 10,102 515 2,585 411 63,393 10,704
|July '03 15,679 189 839 171 11,526 807
|October '03 4,421 107 418 85 774 5
|December '03 4,467 374 2,669 131 8,567 -87
|March '04 1,244 200 81 0 1,509 23
|May '04 1,073 54 15 0 326 0
|July '04 1,490 74 14 0 477 0
|October '04 292 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 576 30 21 0 60 0
|March '05 105 8 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 39,764 -1,215 6,815 -205 87,672 -2,309
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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 (646) 746-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|2/27/03
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