Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 9
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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 2/28/03
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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 | 2/28/03 | Week
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|March '03 193 -99* 88 -71 63 -976
|May '03 10,011 -110* 2,171 -414 65,290 1,897
|July '03 15,668 -11 988 149 13,060 1,534
|October '03 4,456 35 510 92 814 40
|December '03 4,684 210* 2,958 289 9,561 994
|March '04 1,345 101 81 0 1,580 71
|May '04 1,205 132 15 0 344 18
|July '04 1,540 50 100 86 488 11
|October '04 292 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 620 44 21 0 60 0
|March '05 105 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 40,119 352* 6,946 131 91,261 3,589
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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 (646) 746-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|3/6/03
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