Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 21
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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 5/23/2003
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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 | 5/23/2003| Week
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|July '03 2,739 -284 1,072 123 35,391 -2,146
|October '03 2,936 52 271 4 2,358 40
|December '03 6,264 66 6,072 46 26,914 -147
|March '04 6,618 510 1,096 0 4,508 -62
|May '04 3,845 258 24 0 1,628 35
|July '04 5,252 180 23 0 1,435 9
|October '04 1,245 249 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,187 1 21 0 153 21
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 30,201 1,032 8,593 173 72,388 -2,250
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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
|5/29/2003
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