Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 37
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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 9/13/02
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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 | 9/13/02 | Week
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|October '02 854 -597 413 20 1,834 -500
|December '02 5,395 -405 8,526 655 46,610 -2,272
|March '03 9,383 -231 1,285 86 8,566 -266
|May '03 9,016 108 1,450 0 7,903 1,092
|July '03 13,682 -25 734 181 3,117 265
|October '03 3,086 237 102 0 156 0
|December '03 2,998 -216 50 0 1,166 76
|March '04 219 0 0 0 93 0
|May '04 124 0 0 0 17 0
|July '04 144 0 0 0 1 0
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| Totals: 44,901 -1,129 12,560 942 69,463 -1,605
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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
|9/19/02
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