Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 19
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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 5/9/2003
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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 | 5/9/2003| Week
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|May '03 0 -28 0 -113 0 -45
|July '03 3,381 -3,597 1,066 -103 39,412 -5,583
|October '03 2,896 -1,229 267 -16 2,193 717
|December '03 5,222 -776 4,768 140 24,279 5,137
|March '04 4,916 754 94 13 4,350 1,463
|May '04 3,440 434 24 9 1,572 691
|July '04 4,778 764 23 9 1,428 348
|October '04 956 235 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,187 -42 21 0 131 50
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 26,891 -3,485 6,277 -61 73,366 2,778
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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
|5/15/2003
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