Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 6
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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 2/7/03
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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 | 2/7/03 | Week
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|March '03 5,799 -1,838 2,440 -233 37,020 -6,441
|May '03 9,194 29 2,115 124 32,798 5,502
|July '03 15,532 -320 640 23 9,130 595
|October '03 4,347 9 344 14 764 16
|December '03 3,785 -20 2,065 169 8,341 399
|March '04 887 0 81 60 1,480 109
|May '04 945 9 15 0 326 0
|July '04 1,294 34 14 0 457 1
|October '04 292 0 14 0 1 0
|December '04 288 5 21 0 60 0
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| Totals: 42,363 -2,092 7,749 157 90,377 181
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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
|2/13/03
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