Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 3
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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 1/17/03
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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 | 1/17/03 | Week
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|March '03 9,367 -1,017* 2,426 -91 49,980 -518
|May '03 9,727 -580* 2,222 91 20,009 1,215
|July '03 15,976 -447* 676 55 7,906 146
|October '03 4,219 -34 345 48 791 68
|December '03 3,870 -224 1,561 35 6,640 253
|March '04 532 -266 21 0 1,043 129
|May '04 700 -136 15 0 296 21
|July '04 996 107 14 0 247 0
|October '04 28 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 283 1 21 0 15 0
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| Totals: 45,698 -2,596* 7,315 138 86,928 1,314
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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
|1/23/03
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