Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 47
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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 11/22/02
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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 | 11/22/02| Week
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|December '02 336 -3,655 229 -3,313 490 -20,467
|March '03 11,346 1,638 2,576 1,605 51,266 12,932
|May '03 9,982 602 2,555 -8 16,799 1,358
|July '03 15,453 55 620 408 5,919 535
|October '03 3,734 184 99 13 279 30
|December '03 3,162 -76 248 215 3,779 940
|March '04 342 0 0 0 168 0
|May '04 132 1 0 0 258 0
|July '04 153 0 0 0 207 0
|October '04 0 0 0 0 1 1
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| Totals: 44,640 -1,251 6,327 -1,080 79,166 -4,671
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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
|11/29/02
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