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| Weekly Report No. 16 | | "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures | reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 4/19/02 | | (In Contracts) | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 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 | 4/19/02 | Week |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |May '02 514 -1,046 1,232 -321 4,701 -5,721 |July '02 6,892 -861 3,820 1,499 34,959 6,849 |October '02 2,008 -548 218 -229 855 51 |December '02 4,520 554 4,016 72 19,898 2,763 |March '03 2,908 -194 244 158 2,098 269 |May '03 2,422 144 95 0 1,572 129 |July '03 2,524 -183 390 0 847 66 |October '03 827 110 0 0 41 3 |December '03 603 -8 0 0 256 85 |March '04 0 0 0 0 93 68 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Totals: 23,218 -2,032 10,015 1,179 65,320 4,562 |------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future. | | |This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis. |Effective on Monday, April 29, 2002, if you have any questions concerning |this report, call Vincent G. Varisano, |Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646)746-9775. | |Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time |4/25/02 | |