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 4/5/02
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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 | 4/5/02 | Week
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|May '02 3,639 -210 4,006 -261 19,227 -3,176
|July '02 9,064 -421 3,127 140 22,499 1,421
|October '02 2,393 -14 191 0 740 13
|December '02 3,919 -112 4,237 21 16,891 251
|March '03 2,865 366 86 0 1,807 126
|May '03 1,908 89 94 12 1,326 13
|July '03 2,380 40 388 -5 780 0
|October '03 470 22 0 0 38 0
|December '03 501 -110 0 0 171 0
|March '04 0 0 0 0 25 0
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| Totals: 27,139 -350 12,129 -93 63,504 -1,352
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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
|4/11/02
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