Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 24
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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 6/14/02
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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 | 6/14/02 | Week
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|July '02 2,392 -1,153 2,852 -516 13,483 -9,463
|October '02 2,232 -112 167 -4 3,150 393
|December '02 6,172 -33 6,868 -14 37,405 6,779
|March '03 7,838 1,315 382 0 4,758 400
|May '03 6,346 1,043 90 0 2,967 168
|July '03 9,639 1,958 354 0 1,298 102
|October '03 2,114 111 38 0 75 0
|December '03 2,455 493 0 0 473 -4
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 12 0
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| Totals: 39,208 3,622 10,756 -534 63,714 -1,625
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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
|6/20/02
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