Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 48
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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 11/29/02
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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 | 11/29/02| Week
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|December '02 8 -314* 0 -229 182 -308
|March '03 11,266 -80 2,795 219 50,598 -668
|May '03 10,145 163 2,555 0 16,523 -276
|July '03 15,589 136 620 0 6,041 122
|October '03 3,944 210 93 -6 319 40
|December '03 3,294 132 266 18 3,794 15
|March '04 498 156 0 0 168 0
|May '04 295 163 0 0 258 0
|July '04 512 359 0 0 207 0
|October '04 0 0 0 0 1 0
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| Totals: 45,551 925* 6,329 2 78,091 -1075
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|12/5/02
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