Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 7
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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 2/15/02
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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 | 2/15/02 | Week
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|March '02 1,385 -1,009 1,929 -626 8,759 -13,103
|May '02 5,386 -873 2,589 24 23,636 5,594
|July '02 11,302 -879 3,202 21 13,861 341
|October '02 2,099 -172 151 0 522 -32
|December '02 3,117 274 1,927 1,500 13,057 1,687
|March '03 1,672 208 0 0 1,357 46
|May '03 1,115 194 80 0 1,219 112
|July '03 1,499 389 370 0 680 40
|October '03 259 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 318 109 0 0 106 23
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| Totals: 28,152 -1,759 10,248 919 63,207 -5,292
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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 (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|2/21/02
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