Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 29
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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 7/19/02
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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 | 7/19/02 | Week
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|July '02 0 0 0 0 0 -89
|October '02 2,207 -102 346 25 3,335 -341
|December '02 6,109 -1,102 7,551 -868 55,308 -2,063
|March '03 9,121 -87 851 28 8,407 287
|May '03 7,825 142 1,486 -21 4,683 408
|July '03 12,959 418 558 -5 2,014 80
|October '03 2,465 195 71 -6 110 4
|December '03 2,950 155 50 2 866 21
|March '04 170 0 5 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 17 0
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| Totals: 43,806 -381 10,918 -845 74,833 -1,693
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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
|7/25/02
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