Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 11
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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 3/15/02
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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 | 3/15/02 | Week
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|March '02 0 0 0 0 0 -9
|May '02 4,789 29 4,460 360 24,561 332
|July '02 9,644 136 2,710 -987 18,624 1,594
|October '02 2,526 61 151 -15 644 46
|December '02 3,968 507 2,297 315 15,736 116
|March '03 2,188 226 59 0 1,544 1
|May '03 1,596 94 82 2 1,261 -24
|July '03 1,997 -12 383 13 780 0
|October '03 334 59 0 0 37 0
|December '03 510 -32 0 0 120 0
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| Totals: 27,552 1,068 10,142 -312 63,307 2,056
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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
|3/21/02
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