Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 28
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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 7/12/02
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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 | 7/12/02 | Week
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|July '02 0 -10 0 -880 89 -153
|October '02 2,309 -251 321 -103 3,676 -92
|December '02 7,211 -392 8,419 763 57,371 69
|March '03 9,208 -74 823 82 8,120 683
|May '03 7,683 570 1,507 1,408 4,275 266
|July '03 12,541 1,371 563 193 1,934 123
|October '03 2,270 -208 77 13 106 0
|December '03 2,795 172 48 9 845 20
|March '04 170 150 5 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 17 5
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| Totals: 44,187 1,328 11,763 1,485 76,526 921
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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
|7/18/02
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