Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 10
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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 3/8/02
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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 | 3/8/02 | Week
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|March '02 0 -120 0 -13 9 -59
|May '02 4,760 -43 4,100 41 24,229 -3,069
|July '02 9,508 426 3,697 146 17,030 867
|October '02 2,465 451 166 0 598 26
|December '02 3,461 11 1,982 0 15,620 58
|March '03 1,962 -13 59 18 1,543 19
|May '03 1,502 31 80 0 1,285 -20
|July '03 2,009 106 370 0 780 0
|October '03 275 0 0 0 37 0
|December '03 542 129 0 0 120 4
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| Totals: 26,484 978 10,454 192 61,251 2,174
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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
|3/14/02
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