Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 34
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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  8/23/02
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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    |  8/23/02 |  Week
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|October  '02      1,466       -597        500       -101      2,762      -182
|December '02      5,526        -97      8,043         14     49,550    -2,758
|March    '03      9,080       -360      1,137        120      8,688       -51
|May      '03      8,521       -184      1,494        -21      5,878       373
|July     '03     13,238       -174        588          0      2,386        82
|October  '03      2,824         51        142         -3        156         5
|December '03      3,180        -41        110          0      1,030        37
|March    '04        179          0          0          0         93         0
|May      '04          0          0          0          0         17         0
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|   Totals:       44,014     -1,402     12,014          9     70,560    -2,494
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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
|8/29/02
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