Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 44
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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 11/1/02
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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 | 11/1/02 | Week
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|December '02 4,471 -610 6,100 -775 40,739 -715
|March '03 9,116 11 1,115 63 15,460 3,331
|May '03 8,939 -20 2,221 -49 12,617 619
|July '03 14,597 14 715 -2 4,878 199
|October '03 3,228 23 82 0 207 0
|December '03 3,140 12 37 0 2,089 337
|March '04 298 0 0 -4 152 49
|May '04 124 0 0 0 150 5
|July '04 144 0 0 0 202 170
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| Totals: 44,057 -570 10,270 -767 76,494 3,995
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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
|11/7/02
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