Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 9
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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 3/1/02
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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 | 3/1/02 | Week
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|March '02 120 -29 13 0 68 -384
|May '02 4,803 410 4,059 193 27,298 -170
|July '02 9,082 -451 3,551 220 16,163 614
|October '02 2,014 70 166 0 572 12
|December '02 3,450 -88 1,982 15 15,562 656
|March '03 1,975 197 41 41 1,524 20
|May '03 1,471 160 80 0 1,305 5
|July '03 1,903 185 370 0 780 -6
|October '03 275 0 0 0 37 0
|December '03 413 -55 0 0 116 0
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| Totals: 25,506 399 10,262 469 63,425 747
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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
|3/7/02
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