Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 34
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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 8/23/02
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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 | 8/23/02 | Week
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|October '02 1,466 -597 500 -101 2,762 -182
|December '02 5,526 -97 8,043 14 49,550 -2,758
|March '03 9,080 -360 1,137 120 8,688 -51
|May '03 8,521 -184 1,494 -21 5,878 373
|July '03 13,238 -174 588 0 2,386 82
|October '03 2,824 51 142 -3 156 5
|December '03 3,180 -41 110 0 1,030 37
|March '04 179 0 0 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 17 0
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| Totals: 44,014 -1,402 12,014 9 70,560 -2,494
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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
|8/29/02
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