Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 40
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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 10/4/02
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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 | 10/4/02 | Week
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|October '02 8 0 0 -10 175 -22
|December '02 4,409 -1,013 7,974 -618 43,737 -2,610
|March '03 9,199 -173 1,663 160 9,173 272
|May '03 8,818 -414 1,487 6 9,289 290
|July '03 14,165 51 742 -7 3,672 266
|October '03 3,299 42 90 0 189 17
|December '03 3,178 61 50 0 1,370 186
|March '04 298 0 4 0 93 0
|May '04 124 0 0 0 97 33
|July '04 144 0 0 0 21 5
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| Totals: 43,642 -1,446 12,010 -469 67,816 -1,563
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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
|10/10/02
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