Cotton

So we often talk about making sure you're wearing natural fibers.

Cotton is a very common one.

Refined wool, for example, is okay, but the more coarse wool is not okay.

Sometimes polyester does it.

So we often talk about making sure you're wearing natural fibers.

Cotton is a very common one.

Refined wool, for example, is okay, but the more coarse wool is not okay.

Sometimes polyester does it.

Welcome to Cotton Quick Take by PCCA, your short weekly update on the factors shaping cotton markets and the broader agricultural economy.

Thanks for joining us.

Let's take a quick look at what's moving the market this week.

Cotton futures managed a small gain last week, with December settling at 80.20 cents per pound, up 20 points.

While prices briefly pushed above a key technical level, the market continues to struggle to build upward momentum.

Here with more insight is PCCA merchandiser David Canale.

Looking ahead, Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision will be a major event, followed by Thursday's inflation data and export sales report.

Traders will also be watching harvest conditions and whether improving demand can provide some much-needed price support.

Bought enough to repair a small army.

Cotton, box of swabs.

Then he asked me something that made me wonder.

What

Bought enough to repair a small army.

Cotton, box of swabs.

Then he asked me something that made me wonder.

What was that? Asked me if I had something to probe with.

By reason of my fatigue and of the hour, it has been decided to remain here for the night.

tired as i am i cannot but limp to the doorway to contemplate the amazing prospect from within a few feet of the threshold the ghastly slope of rocks and cinders drops down into a prodigious disk of clouds miles beneath us clouds of countless forms but mostly wreathings and fluffy pilings and the whole huddling mass reaching almost to the horizon is blinding white under the sun By the Japanese, this tremendous cloud expanse is well named Watano Umi, the Sea of Cotton.

The horizon itself, enormously risen, phantasmally expanded, seems halfway up above the world, a wide luminous belt ringing the hollow vision.

Hollow, I call it, because extreme distances below the skyline are sky-colored and vague, so that the impression you receive is not of being on a point under a vault but of being upon a point rising into a stupendous blue sphere of which this huge horizon would represent the equatorial zone to turn away from such a spectacle is not possible i watch and watch until the dropping sun changes the colours turning the sea of cotton into a fleece of gold Half round the horizon a yellow glory grows and burns.