Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 13
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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 3/28/03
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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 | 3/28/03 | Week
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|May '03 6,360 -4,229 3,409 610* 48,689 -13,446
|July '03 13,149 -2,166 1,027 120* 17,632 1,131
|October '03 4,873 -88 495 -19 965 67
|December '03 5,076 -203 3,811 233 12,051 564
|March '04 2,151 265 81 0 1,888 133
|May '04 1,675 112 15 0 429 34
|July '04 2,179 63 134 1 541 6
|October '04 389 59 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: 36,604 -6,187 9,007 945* 82,256 -11,511
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|4/3/03
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