Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 51
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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 12/21/01
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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 | 12/21/01| Week
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|March '02 13,079 -137* 12,948 -93* 29,970 36
|May '02 7,580 130* 2,806 -125 10,450 764
|July '02 13,723 427* 1,985 92 9,944 398
|October '02 2,120 -34 206 55 437 33
|December '02 2,945 33 357 35 6,265 276
|March '03 1,124 0 0 -50 942 72
|May '03 809 51 49 0 863 1
|July '03 981 0 120 50 525 58
|October '03 169 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 42,739 470* 18,471 -36* 59,406 1,638
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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 (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|12/27/01
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