Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 18
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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 5/3/02
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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 | 5/3/02 | Week
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|May '02 56 0 21 -305 13 -41
|July '02 4,206 -1,416 4,209 103 39,247 611
|October '02 1,644 -248 222 -27 1,290 158
|December '02 4,852 -76 4,445 324 21,778 685
|March '03 3,443 39 292 48 3,225 500
|May '03 3,111 263 95 0 2,089 360
|July '03 4,053 470 392 2 1,007 94
|October '03 843 -16 0 0 62 15
|December '03 986 10 0 0 261 15
|March '04 0 0 5 5 93 93*
|May '04 0 0 0 -5 0 -93*
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| Totals: 23,194 -974 9,681 145 69,065 2,397*
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|*Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|5/9/02
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