Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 11
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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 3/14/03
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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 | 3/14/03 | Week
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|March '03 0 -174 0 -2 0 -4
|May '03 11,008 780 2,776 290 63,868 -1,388
|July '03 15,873 346 508 -506 15,160 831
|October '03 5,016 220 520 4 858 38
|December '03 5,253 410 3,253 212 11,103 712
|March '04 1,670 210 81 0 1,657 44
|May '04 1,502 228 15 0 362 11
|July '04 1,967 399 133 19 490 2
|October '04 319 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 637 16 21 0 60 0
|March '05 115 10 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 43,360 2,445 7,321 17 93,559 246
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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
|3/20/03
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