Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 20
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| "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
| reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 5/18/01
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| (In Contracts)
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| | | Open Futures
| | Call Cotton Based New York | Contracts - New York
| | | Cotton Exchange
|Futures |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
| | Unfixed | Change | Unfixed | Change | At | Change
|Based | Call | From | Call | From | Close | From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 5/18/01 | Week
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|July '01 5,510 -566 7,301 -38 32,857 -1,493
|October '01 1,323 -65 534 46 1,458 1
|December '01 6,714 -141 8,559 926 21,449 316
|March '02 16,293 -146 5,030 0 3,719 194
|May '02 8,361 -31 16 0 3,253 72
|July '02 13,917 -321 153 0 1,516 249
|October '02 1,438 13 0 0 155 0
|December '02 582 -145 192 0 1,877 0
|March '03 86 14 0 0 45 0
|May '03 146 0 0 0 0 0
|July '03 216 138 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 54,586 -1,250 21,785 934 66,329 -661
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|5/24/01
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