Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 18
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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 5/2/2003
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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 | 5/2/2003| Week
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|May '03 28 1 113 -100 45 -124
|July '03 6,978 -5,593 1,169 -266 44,995 -6,299
|October '03 4,125 -496 283 -4 1,476 389
|December '03 5,998 -943 4,628 240 19,142 2,133
|March '04 4,162 42 81 0 2,887 370
|May '04 3,006 166 15 0 881 39
|July '04 4,014 357 14 -160 1,080 98
|October '04 721 8 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,229 0 21 0 81 5
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 30,376 -6,458 6,338 -290 70,588 -3,389
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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
|5/8/2003
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