Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 10
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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 3/7/03
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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 | 3/7/03 | Week
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|March '03 174 -19 2 -86 4 -59
|May '03 10,228 217 2,486 315 65,256 -34
|July '03 15,527 -141 1,014 26 14,329 1,269
|October '03 4,796 340 516 6 820 6
|December '03 4,843 159 3,041 83 10,391 830
|March '04 1,460 115 81 0 1,613 33
|May '04 1,274 69 15 0 351 7
|July '04 1,568 28 114 14 488 0
|October '04 319 27 14 0 1 0
|December '04 621 1 21 0 60 0
|March '05 105 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 40,915 796 7,304 358 93,313 2,052
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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
|3/13/03
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