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The sluggish off-take of cotton yarn and grey cloth in the domestic market has kept spinners away from the trading ring. With little buying interest, insipid conditions continue at the cotton market on Thursday. Though ginners were keen to enter into deals but falling world cotton prices have further depressed the local market.

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The trading activity at cotton market remained lackluster on Wednesday as leading buyers kept to the sidelines amid uncertain outlook. Barring a few deals finalised by some small spinners. Slow demand for cotton yarn and grey cloth from the value-added textile sector discouraged spinners from further adding lint to their inventory.

There are strong indications that the current cotton season could be shorter than normal as very little phutti (seed cotton) has been left behind in the fields.

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Due to poor demand for lint from leading spinners. Barring a few small and needy spinners, the trading ring gave a deserted look which keep trading activity slow and restricted at the cotton market on Tuesday.

Sluggish off-take of yarn locally and falling world cotton prices continued to depress lint rates. Leading spinners already having long positions were conspicuous by their absence.

At the Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) spot rates were firm at overnight level of Rs7,000 per maund.

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The absence of buying interest from local spinners witnessed further decline in cotton prices on Thursday. Due to falling cotton prices, phutti (seed cotton) also came under pressure and moved lowered.

Ginners are perturbed by the situation as they are still holding substantial quantity of unsold cotton. Barring a few needy spinners who replenished their stocks, the market otherwise remained devoid of activity.

A large number of looms are reported to have shutdown in Faisalabad owing to the flooding of grey cloth coming from India and China via Dubai.

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With buyers and sellers staying away from the proceedings kept cotton market conditions dull on Tuesday. The undertone was weak and outlook uncertain. However, low demand for cotton from the value-added textile sector is cited as another factor.

Moreover, slow demand for cotton yarn has forced many spinners to move cautiously and avoid building up their inventories.

The downward trend in world leading cotton markets has impacted the domestic market adversely.

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Cotton prices continued to slide for the third consecutive session amid slow demand from the spinners on Wednesday. Ginners holding substantial stocks of unsold cotton and with rapidly falling prices are likely to suffer huge losses.

Cotton broker Adil Naseem said that the declining lint price trend indicated that a weaker US dollar against other leading currencies is impacting commodity prices.

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Cotton prices moving further lower on Tuesday after dull trading activity at cotton market. Falling cotton prices also impacted phutti (seed cotton) negatively, with Punjab quality being quoted between Rs2,700-2,900 and Sindh variety in the range of Rs2,700-3,300 per 40kg. Previously phutti prices were being quoted between Rs2,900-3,500 per 40kg.

However, some buying interest was noted at the lower level as many spinners preferred to cover up their positions amid falling cotton prices.

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Trading activity resumed on an extremely slow tone as the week opened at the cotton market as buyers stayed away due to slow off take of yarn and falling cotton prices in the world markets.

Although the SRO for waiver of duty and taxes on lint imports was issued by the government last week, spinners are now facing a new quandary as cotton yarn prices started to decline due to lack of buying from the value-added textile sector.

According to cotton broker Naseem Usman, the spinners have huge cotton inventories, due to which the yarn market has suddenly become depressed and slow.

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Slow trading witnessed at the cotton market on Wednesday as leading spinners kept to the sidelines. Overall, the undertone was weak and outlook uncertain. However, some market reports suggest that slow off-take of cotton yarn was a major factor for poor performance of the cotton market.

Trading resumed on overnight dull tone, impacted by the issuance of an statutory release order (SRO) waiving duty and taxes on import of cotton.

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Better grades of lint kept the physical prices stable while trading volumes in second grade of cotton remained on the higher side during the trading session in major stations of Punjab and Sindh.

Buyers in anticipation of an upward change in prices in the upcoming trading sessions made forward deals of better grades. Buyers made forward deals for a month period at around Rs 6,550 per maund and Rs 6,600 per maund.

Buyers purchased commodity at a premium price and mills consolidated their inventories in anticipating paucity in coming trading sessions at lint market.