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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