Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 12
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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 3/21/03
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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 | 3/21/03 | Week
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|May '03 10,589 -419 2,599 -177 62,135 -1,733
|July '03 15,315 -558 520 12 16,501 1,341
|October '03 4,961 -55 514 -6 898 40
|December '03 5,279 26 3,578 325 11,487 384
|March '04 1,886 216 81 0 1,755 98
|May '04 1,563 61 15 0 395 33
|July '04 2,116 149 133 0 535 45
|October '04 330 11 14 0 1 0
|December '04 637 0 21 0 60 0
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 42,791 -569 7,475 154 93,767 208
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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
|3/27/03
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