Cotton On-Call Report


|                                Weekly Report No. 52
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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  12/28/01
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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    |  12/28/01|  Week
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|March    '02     13,278        199     13,003         41*    30,013        43
|May      '02      7,508        -72      2,800         -6     10,594       144
|July     '02     13,596       -127      1,959        -26     10,045       101
|October  '02      2,061        -59        206          0        423       -14
|December '02      2,945          0        322        -35      6,409       144
|March    '03      1,163         39          0          0        952        10
|May      '03        809          0         49          0        880        17
|July     '03        981          0        120          0        530         5
|October  '03        169          0          0          0         10         0
|December '03        209          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       42,719        -20     18,459        -26*    59,856       450
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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 (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|1/3/02
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