Cotton On Call Report No. 52, for the week ending December 27, will be published on Friday, January 3, 2003.
| Weekly Report No. 51 | | "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures | reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 12/20/02 | | (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 | 12/20/02| Week |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March '03 11,311 -314 2,717 -156 45,411 1,055 |May '03 10,666 226 2,551 0 16,563 230 |July '03 16,187 183 611 -11 6,772 590 |October '03 3,891 -2 297 -36 737 33 |December '03 3,834 -37 1,496 1,205 4,777 415 |March '04 583 43 21 0 580 46 |May '04 508 161 15 1 270 2 |July '04 805 221 14 0 247 0 |October '04 28 0 14 0 1 0 |December '04 186 144 21 0 10 10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Totals: 47,999 625 7,757 1,003 75,368 2,381 |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future. | |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 |12/27/02 | |