Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 23
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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 6/7/02
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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 | 6/7/02 | Week
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|July '02 3,545 -531 3,368 173 22,946 -3,211
|October '02 2,344 120 171 -28 2,757 291
|December '02 6,205 139 6,882 41 30,626 2,020
|March '03 6,523 1,178 382 -26 4,358 185
|May '03 5,303 1,016 90 -5 2,799 266
|July '03 7,681 1,796 354 0 1,196 17
|October '03 2,003 231 38 0 75 0
|December '03 1,962 442 0 0 477 27
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 12 12
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| Totals: 35,586 4,391 11,290 155 65,339 -393
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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
|6/13/02
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