Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 52
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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 12/27/02
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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 | 12/27/02| Week
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|March '03 11,485 174 2,630 -87 47,451 2,040
|May '03 10,759 93 2,526 -25 16,361 -202
|July '03 16,363 176 611 0 6,679 -93
|October '03 3,975 84 297 0 731 -6
|December '03 3,999 165 1,496 0 4,903 126
|March '04 583 0 21 0 580 0
|May '04 508 0 15 0 270 0
|July '04 805 0 14 0 247 0
|October '04 28 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 186 0 21 0 10 0
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| Totals: 48,691 692 7,645 -112 77,233 1,865
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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
|1/3/03
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