Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 35
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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 8/30/02
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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 | 8/30/02 | Week
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|October '02 1,559 93 424 -76 2,518 -244
|December '02 5,352 -174 8,073 30 48,752 -798
|March '03 9,513 433 1,092 -45 8,756 68
|May '03 8,641 120 1,450 -44 6,327 449
|July '03 13,112 -126 553 -35 2,451 65
|October '03 2,843 19 102 -40 156 0
|December '03 3,133 -47 50 -60 1,030 0
|March '04 179 0 0 0 93 0
|May '04 124 124 0 0 17 0
|July '04 144 144 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 44,600 586 11,744 -270 70,100 -460
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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
|9/5/02
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