Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 23
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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 6/6/2003
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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 | 6/6/2003| Week
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|July '03 1,479 -1,091 692 -389 32,847 -1,347
|October '03 2,605 98 272 5 3,434 349
|December '03 6,137 56 6,243 18 36,768 7,420
|March '04 6,795 103 1,096 0 5,645 629
|May '04 3,914 57 23 0 2,084 182
|July '04 5,150 -50 23 0 1,656 -30
|October '04 1,453 8 14 0 96 95
|December '04 1,125 -30 21 0 487 285
|March '05 115 0 0 0 10 10
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| Totals: 28,773 -849 8,384 -366 83,027 7,593
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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 Market Oversight.
|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
|6/12/2003
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