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 12/28/01
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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 | 12/28/01| Week
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|March '02 13,278 199 13,003 41* 30,013 43
|May '02 7,508 -72 2,800 -6 10,594 144
|July '02 13,596 -127 1,959 -26 10,045 101
|October '02 2,061 -59 206 0 423 -14
|December '02 2,945 0 322 -35 6,409 144
|March '03 1,163 39 0 0 952 10
|May '03 809 0 49 0 880 17
|July '03 981 0 120 0 530 5
|October '03 169 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 42,719 -20 18,459 -26* 59,856 450
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|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.
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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 (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|1/3/02
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