Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 38
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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 9/20/02
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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 | 9/20/02 | Week
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|October '02 281 -573 81 -332 870 -964
|December '02 5,363 36* 8,713 187 45,996 -614
|March '03 9,264 -119 1,353 68 8,231 -335
|May '03 9,074 58 1,486 36 8,229 326
|July '03 13,922 64* 734 0 3,362 245
|October '03 3,142 56 102 0 156 0
|December '03 3,112 114 50 0 1,175 9
|March '04 298 79 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: 44,724 -285* 12,519 -41 68,130 -1,333
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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.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|9/26/02
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