Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 30
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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 7/26/02
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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 | 7/26/02 | Week
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|October '02 2,329 85* 322 15* 3,322 -13
|December '02 5,856 -265* 7,483 -54* 55,382 74
|March '03 9,158 37 762 -89 8,611 204
|May '03 8,044 219 1,459 -27 4,754 71
|July '03 12,991 32 558 0 2,112 98
|October '03 2,566 101 45 -26 110 0
|December '03 2,967 17 50 0 930 64
|March '04 170 0 0 -5 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 17 0
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| Totals: 44,081 226* 10,679 -186* 75,331 498
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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
|8/1/02
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