Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 32
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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 8/9/02
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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 | 8/9/02 | Week
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|October '02 2,018 -252* 479 7 2,979 -225
|December '02 5,942 32* 7,879 131 52,213 -4,313
|March '03 9,475 -143 895 87 8,671 -71
|May '03 8,711 202 1,500 49 5,276 303
|July '03 13,523 170 588 40 2,222 48
|October '03 2,775 120 145 49 123 13
|December '03 3,230 80 110 60 976 -36
|March '04 179 0 0 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 17 0
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| Totals: 45,853 209* 11,596 423 72,570 -4,281
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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.
|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|8/15/02
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