Cotton On Call Reports No. 51 and No. 52, for the weeks ending December 20 and December 27, will be published on Friday, December 27, 2002 and January 3, 2003, respectively.
| Weekly Report No. 50 | | "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures | reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 12/13/02 | | (In Contracts) | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 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 | 12/13/02| Week |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |December '02 0 0 0 0 0 -29 |March '03 11,625 542* 2,873 138 44,356 -714 |May '03 10,440 9* 2,551 7 16,333 146 |July '03 16,004 -17* 622 -9 6,182 114 |October '03 3,893 112 333 197 704 -2 |December '03 3,871 396 291 0 4,362 281 |March '04 540 42 21 21 534 101 |May '04 347 29 14 14 268 10 |July '04 584 28 14 14 247 40 |October '04 28 28 14 14 1 0 |December '04 42 42 21 21 0 0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Totals: 47,374 1,211* 6,754 417 72,987 -53 |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |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. | |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. | |Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time |12/19/02 | |