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 3/29/02
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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 2/| From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 3/28/02 | Week
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|May '02 3,849 -92 4,267 353 22,403 -3,708
|July '02 9,485 -160 2,987 87 21,078 1,191
|October '02 2,407 -155 191 0 727 7
|December '02 4,031 -116 4,216 1,956 16,640 140
|March '03 2,499 264 86 1 1,681 57
|May '03 1,819 209 82 0 1,313 4
|July '03 2,340 315 393 4 780 0
|October '03 448 142 0 0 38 0
|December '03 611 101 0 0 171 39
|March '04 0 0 0 0 25 25
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| Totals: 27,489 508 12,222 2,401 64,856 -2,245
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|2/ The New York Board of Trade was closed for a holiday on 3/29/02.
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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
|4/4/02
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