Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 17
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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 4/25/2003
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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 | 4/25/2003|
| Week
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|May '03 27 -4,019 213 -1,104 169 -10,305
|July '03 12,571 -432 1,435 -57 51,294 4,174
|October '03 4,621 -336 287 -197 1,087 101
|December '03 6,941 634 4,388 30 17,009 1,704
|March '04 4,120 427 81 0 2,517 231
|May '04 2,840 261 15 0 842 297
|July '04 3,657 190 174 41 982 66
|October '04 713 -6 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,229 115 21 0 76 0
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 36,834 -3,166 6,628 -1,287 73,977 -3,732
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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
|5/1/2003
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