Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 5
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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 1/31/03
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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 | 1/31/03 | Week
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|March '03 7,637 -15 2,673 -236 43,461 1,604
|May '03 9,165 173 1,991 -328 27,296 5,767
|July '03 15,852 185 617 -5 8,535 671
|October '03 4,338 126 330 -10 748 19
|December '03 3,805 205 1,896 320 7,942 441
|March '04 887 370 21 0 1,371 -8
|May '04 936 236 15 0 326 30
|July '04 1,260 264 14 0 456 0
|October '04 292 264 14 0 1 0
|December '04 283 0 21 0 60 43
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| Totals: 44,455 1,808 7,592 -259 90,196 8,567
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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
|2/6/03
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