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US cotton: supply outweighs demand

13/10/2011

US cotton futures fell the most in almost three weeks after the government raised its crop forecast, Bloomberg has reported.

Farmers will produce 16.6 million bales of cotton in the harvest that began in August 2011, 0.3% more than projected in September, the US Department of Agriculture has said in a report.

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