Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 27
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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 7/5/02
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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 2/| From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 7/3/02 | Week
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|July '02 10 -33 880 -119 242 -39
|October '02 2,560 -78 424 174 3,768 32
|December '02 7,603 -77 7,656 22 57,302 1,671
|March '03 9,282 125 741 149 7,437 829
|May '03 7,113 39 99 0 4,009 388
|July '03 11,170 -26 370 0 1,811 222
|October '03 2,478 239 64 0 106 0
|December '03 2,623 -37 39 0 825 220
|March '04 20 0 5 0 93 0
|May '04 0 0 0 0 12 0
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| Totals: 42,859 152 10,278 226 75,605 3,323
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|2/ Due to the July 4th holiday, Open Futures Contracts data is as of 7/3/02.
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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
|7/11/02
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