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 5/10/02
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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 | 5/10/02 | Week
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|May '02 0 -56 0 -21 0 -13
|July '02 4,720 514 4,357 139* 37,425 -1,822
|October '02 1,556 -88 184 -38 1,488 198
|December '02 4,937 85 4,984 539 22,261 483
|March '03 3,629 186 358 66 3,569 344
|May '03 3,135 24 78 -17 2,298 209
|July '03 4,395 342 403 11 1,022 15
|October '03 921 78 33 33 60 -2
|December '03 1,019 33 42 42 302 41
|March '04 20 20 5 0 93 0
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| Totals: 24,332 1,138 10,444 754* 68,518 -547
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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
|5/16/02
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