Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 31
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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 8/2/02
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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 | 8/2/02 | Week
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|October '02 2,272 -57 472 150 3,204 -118
|December '02 5,908 -1* 7,748 265 56,526 1,144
|March '03 9,618 460 808 46 8,742 131
|May '03 8,509 448* 1,451 -8 4,973 219
|July '03 13,353 357* 548 -10 2,174 62
|October '03 2,655 84* 96 51 110 0
|December '03 3,150 183 50 0 1,012 82
|March '04 179 9 0 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 17 0
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| Totals: 45,644 1,483* 11,173 494 76,851 1,520
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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
|8/8/02
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