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 3/22/02
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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 | 3/22/02 | Week
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|May '02 3,941 -848 3,914 -546 26,111 1,550
|July '02 9,645 1 2,900 190 19,887 1,263
|October '02 2,562 36 191 40 720 76
|December '02 4,147 179 2,260 -37 16,500 764
|March '03 2,235 47 85 26 1,624 80
|May '03 1,610 14 82 0 1,309 48
|July '03 2,025 28 389 6 780 0
|October '03 306 -28 0 0 38 1
|December '03 510 0 0 0 132 12
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| Totals: 26,981 -571 9,821 -321 67,101 3,794
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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
|3/28/02
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