Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 32
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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  8/9/02
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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    |  8/9/02  |  Week
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|October  '02      2,018       -252*       479          7      2,979      -225
|December '02      5,942         32*     7,879        131     52,213    -4,313
|March    '03      9,475       -143        895         87      8,671       -71
|May      '03      8,711        202      1,500         49      5,276       303
|July     '03     13,523        170        588         40      2,222        48
|October  '03      2,775        120        145         49        123        13
|December '03      3,230         80        110         60        976       -36
|March    '04        179          0          0          0         93         0
|May      '04          0          0          0          0         17         0
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|   Totals:       45,853        209*    11,596        423     72,570    -4,281
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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.
|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|8/15/02
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