Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 50
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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 12/14/01
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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 | 12/14/01| Week
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|March '02 13,207 -435 13,080 38 29,934 -1,250
|May '02 7,334 -301 2,931 -38 9,686 -235
|July '02 13,249 -90 1,893 56 9,546 39
|October '02 2,154 315 151 0 404 85
|December '02 2,912 521 322 0 5,989 648
|March '03 1,124 -31 50 50 870 156
|May '03 758 25 49 0 862 24
|July '03 981 30 70 -50 467 38
|October '03 169 40 0 0 10 0
|December '03 209 108 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 42,097 182 18,546 56 57,768 -495
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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 (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|12/20/01
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