Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 26
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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 6/28/02
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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 | 6/28/02 | Week
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|July '02 43 -225 999 -517 281 -558
|October '02 2,638 151 250 37 3,736 13
|December '02 7,680 495 7,634 7 55,631 5,593
|March '03 9,157 495 592 201 6,608 930
|May '03 7,074 105 99 4 3,621 555
|July '03 11,196 514 370 38 1,589 95
|October '03 2,239 87 64 17 106 0
|December '03 2,660 392 39 26 605 115
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 12 0
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| Totals: 42,707 2,014 10,052 -187 72,282 6,743
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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
|7/5/02
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