Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 42
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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 10/18/02
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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 | 10/18/02| Week
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|December '02 5,072 483 8,275 -135 44,937 -1,240
|March '03 9,246 42 1,077 -575 10,192 643
|May '03 9,219 156 2,181 705 11,349 1,482
|July '03 14,584 42 742 0 4,561 426
|October '03 3,400 18 82 -8 209 0
|December '03 3,067 -3 37 -13 1,639 97
|March '04 298 0 4 0 103 0
|May '04 124 0 0 0 128 0
|July '04 144 0 0 0 21 0
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| Totals: 45,154 738 12,398 -26 73,139 1,408
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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
|10/24/02
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