Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 41
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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 10/11/02
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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 | 10/11/02| Week
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|October '02 0 -8 0 0 0 -175
|December '02 4,589 144* 8,410 436 46,177 2,440
|March '03 9,204 -13* 1,652 -11 9,549 376
|May '03 9,063 245 1,476 -11 9,867 578
|July '03 14,542 377 742 0 4,135 463
|October '03 3,382 83 90 0 209 20
|December '03 3,070 -108 50 0 1,542 172
|March '04 298 0 4 0 103 10
|May '04 124 0 0 0 128 31
|July '04 144 0 0 0 21 0
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| Totals: 44,416 720* 12,424 414 71,731 3,915
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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
|10/17/02
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