Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 20
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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 5/16/2003
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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 | 5/16/2003|
| Week
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|July '03 3,023 -358 949 -117 37,537 -1,875
|October '03 2,884 -12 267 0 2,318 125
|December '03 6,198 976 6,026 1,258 27,061 2,782
|March '04 6,108 1,192 1,096 1,002 4,570 220
|May '04 3,587 147 24 0 1,593 21
|July '04 5,072 294 23 0 1,426 -2
|October '04 996 40 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,186 -1 21 0 132 1
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 29,169 2,278 8,420 2,143 74,638 1,272
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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
|5/22/2003
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