Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 33
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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 8/16/02
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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 | 8/16/02 | Week
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|October '02 2,063 45 601 122 2,944 -35
|December '02 5,623 -319 8,029 150 52,308 95
|March '03 9,440 -35 1,017 122 8,739 68
|May '03 8,705 -6 1,515 15 5,505 229
|July '03 13,412 -111 588 0 2,304 82
|October '03 2,773 -2 145 0 151 28
|December '03 3,221 -9 110 0 993 17
|March '04 179 0 0 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 17 0
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| Totals: 45,416 -437 12,005 409 73,054 484
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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
|8/22/02
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