Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 16
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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 4/18/2003
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| (In Contracts)
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| | | Open Futures
| | Call Cotton Based New York | Contracts - New York
| | | Board of Trade
|Futures |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
| | Unfixed | Change | Unfixed | Change | At | Change
|Based | Call | From | Call | From | Close 2/| From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week |4/17/2003 |
| | Week
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|May '03 4,046 -1,330 1,317 -386 10,474 -14,051
|July '03 13,003 429 1,492 129 47,120 11,954
|October '03 4,957 -7 484 -11 986 -18
|December '03 6,307 262 4,358 192 15,305 769
|March '04 3,693 423 81 0 2,286 189
|May '04 2,579 148 15 0 545 103
|July '04 3,467 167 133 0 916 339
|October '04 719 220 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,114 -3 21 0 76 16
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 40,000 309 7,915 -76 77,709 -699
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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 4/18/03.
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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
|4/24/2003
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