Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 22
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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 5/31/02
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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 | 5/31/02 | Week
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|July '02 4,076 -95 3,195 -1,005 26,157 -4,374
|October '02 2,224 205 199 -10 2,466 575
|December '02 6,066 -75 6,841 -87 28,606 3,617
|March '03 5,345 71 408 30 4,173 142
|May '03 4,287 103 95 17 2,533 102
|July '03 5,885 62 354 -60 1,179 123
|October '03 1,772 95 38 0 75 0
|December '03 1,520 -276 0 0 450 8
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
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| Totals: 31,195 90 11,135 -1,115 65,732 193
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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
|6/6/02
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