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 5/17/02
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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 | 5/17/02 | Week
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|July '02 4,267 -453 4,084 -273 35,512 -1,913
|October '02 1,817 261 184 0 1,615 127
|December '02 5,340 403 5,977 993 23,391 1,130
|March '03 4,223 594 358 0 3,570 1
|May '03 3,626 491 78 0 2,327 29
|July '03 5,383 988 403 0 1,028 6
|October '03 960 39 33 0 75 15
|December '03 1,338 319 0 -42 342 40
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
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| Totals: 26,974 2,642 11,122 678 67,953 -565
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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
|5/23/02
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