Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 25
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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 6/21/02
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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 | 6/21/02 | Week
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|July '02 268 -2,124 1,516 -1,293* 839 -12,644
|October '02 2,487 255 213 36* 3,723 573
|December '02 7,185 1,013 7,627 759 50,038 12,633
|March '03 8,662 824 391 9 5,678 920
|May '03 6,969 623 95 5 3,066 99
|July '03 10,682 1,043 332 -22 1,494 196
|October '03 2,152 38 47 9 106 31
|December '03 2,268 -187 13 13 490 17
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 12 0
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| Totals: 40,693 1,485 10,239 -484* 65,539 1,825
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|6/27/02
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