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 5/24/02
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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 | 5/24/02 | Week
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|July '02 4,171 -96 4,200 116 30,531 -4,981
|October '02 2,019 202 209 25 1,891 276
|December '02 6,141 801 6,928 951 24,989 1,598
|March '03 5,274 1,051 378 20 4,031 461
|May '03 4,184 558 78 0 2,431 104
|July '03 5,823 440 414 11 1,056 28
|October '03 1,677 717 38 5 75 0
|December '03 1,796 458 0 0 442 100
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
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| Totals: 31,105 4,131 12,250 1,128 65,539 -2,414
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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
|5/30/02
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