Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 49
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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 12/6/02
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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 | 12/6/02 | Week
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|December '02 0 -8 0 0 29 -153
|March '03 11,080 -186 2,735 -60 45,070 -5,528
|May '03 10,413 268 2,544 -11 16,187 -336
|July '03 16,016 427 631 11 6,068 27
|October '03 3,781 -163 136 43 706 387
|December '03 3,475 181 291 25 4,081 287
|March '04 498 0 0 0 433 265
|May '04 318 23 0 0 258 0
|July '04 556 44 0 0 207 0
|October '04 0 0 0 0 1 0
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| Totals: 46,137 586 6,337 8 73,040 -5,051
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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
|12/12/02
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