Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 15
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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 4/11/2003
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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 | 4/11/2003
| Week
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|May '03 5,376 -44 1,703 -357 24,525 -18,014
|July '03 12,574 -167 1,363 417 35,166 11,941
|October '03 4,964 12 495 0 1,004 18
|December '03 6,045 449 4,166 268 14,536 830
|March '04 3,270 194 81 0 2,097 62
|May '04 2,431 128 15 0 442 9
|July '04 3,300 186 133 0 577 36
|October '04 499 22 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,117 0 21 0 60 0
|March '05 115 9 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 39,691 789 7,991 328 78,408 -5,118
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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
|4/17/2003
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