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 2/22/02
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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 | 2/22/02 | Week
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|March '02 149 -1,275* 13 -1,919* 452 -8,307
|May '02 4,393 -1,025* 3,866 1,277 27,468 3,832
|July '02 9,533 -1,924* 3,331 95* 15,549 1,688
|October '02 1,944 -177* 166 15 560 38
|December '02 3,538 397* 1,967 40 14,906 1,849
|March '03 1,778 106 0 0 1,504 147
|May '03 1,311 196 80 0 1,300 81
|July '03 1,718 219 370 0 786 106
|October '03 275 16 0 0 37 27
|December '03 468 150 0 0 116 10
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| Totals: 25,107 -3,317* 9,793 -492* 62,678 -529
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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
|2/28/02
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