Cotton prices are back up 34 to 48 points early on Wednesday. Futures closed the Tuesday session with contracts down 79 to 112 points across the board. Crude oil is down $1.56 per barrel on the session, with the US dollar index $0.410 higher.
Crop Progress data tallied 89% of the US cotton crop with bolls opening as of 10/25, behind the 92% average pace. Harvest was 52% complete, 7 percentage points ahead of normal. Conditions slipped 2% to 33% gd/ex in the final rating for the year, as the Brugler500 index was down 3 points to 289.