Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 43
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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 10/25/02
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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 | 10/25/02| Week
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|December '02 5,081 5* 6,875 -1,400 41,454 -3,483
|March '03 9,105 -147* 1,052 -25 12,129 1,937
|May '03 8,959 -260 2,270 89 11,998 649
|July '03 14,583 -1 717 -25 4,679 118
|October '03 3,205 -195 82 0 207 -2
|December '03 3,128 61 37 0 1,752 113
|March '04 298 0 4 0 103 0
|May '04 124 0 0 0 145 17
|July '04 144 0 0 0 32 11
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| Totals: 44,627 -537* 11,037 -1,361 72,499 -640
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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
|10/31/02
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