Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 14
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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 4/4/03
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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 | 4/4/03 | Week
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|May '03 5,420 -940 2,060 -1,349 42,539 -6,150
|July '03 12,741 -408 946 -81 23,225 5,593
|October '03 4,952 79 495 0 986 21
|December '03 5,596 520 3,898 87 13,706 1,655
|March '04 3,076 925 81 0 2,035 147
|May '04 2,303 628 15 0 433 4
|July '04 3,114 935 133 -1 541 0
|October '04 477 88 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,117 480 21 0 60 0
|March '05 106 -9 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 38,902 2,298 7,663 -1,344 83,526 1,270
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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
|4/10/03
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