Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 45
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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 11/8/02
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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 | 11/8/02 | Week
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|December '02 4,435 -36 4,782 -1,318 44,113 3,374
|March '03 9,272 156 1,053 -62 21,684 6,224
|May '03 9,140 201 2,197 -24 14,131 1,514
|July '03 14,847 250 670 -45 5,219 341
|October '03 3,449 221 82 0 222 15
|December '03 3,260 120 45 8 2,566 477
|March '04 333 35 9 9 168 16
|May '04 132 8 0 0 239 89
|July '04 153 9 0 0 207 5
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| Totals: 45,021 964 8,838 -1,432 88,549 12,055
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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
|11/14/02
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