Cotton futures settled higher on Wednesday, making the biggest gain in more than a week, on a short-covering rally ahead of the US government's planting intentions report on Thursday. "This is just short covering and book scoring up ahead of tomorrow's acreage figure," said Jobe Moss, a broker with MCM Inc in Lubbock, Texas. The front-month May contract on ICE Futures US settled up 0.29 cent, or 0.51 percent, at 57.67 cents per lb after hitting a high of 57.92 cents.
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