Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 39
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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 9/27/02
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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 | 9/27/02 | Week
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|October '02 8 -273 10 -71 197 -673
|December '02 5,422 59 8,592 -121 46,347 351
|March '03 9,372 108 1,503 150 8,901 670
|May '03 9,232 158 1,481 -5 8,999 770
|July '03 14,114 192 749 15 3,406 44
|October '03 3,257 115 90 -12 172 16
|December '03 3,117 5 50 0 1,184 9
|March '04 298 0 4 4 93 0
|May '04 124 0 0 0 64 47
|July '04 144 0 0 0 16 15
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| Totals: 45,088 364 12,479 -40 69,379 1,249
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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
|10/3/02
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