Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 36
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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 9/6/02
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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 | 9/6/02 | Week
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|October '02 1,451 -108 393 -31 2,334 -184
|December '02 5,800 448 7,871 -202 48,882 130
|March '03 9,614 101 1,199 107 8,832 76
|May '03 8,908 267 1,450 0 6,811 484
|July '03 13,707 595 553 0 2,852 401
|October '03 2,849 6 102 0 156 0
|December '03 3,214 81 50 0 1,090 60
|March '04 219 40 0 0 93 0
|May '04 124 0 0 0 17 0
|July '04 144 0 0 0 1 1
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| Totals: 46,030 1,430 11,618 -126 71,068 968
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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
|9/12/02
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