Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 28
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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  7/13/01
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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    |  7/13/01 |  Week
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|July     '01          0          0          0          0        207      -100
|October  '01      1,180        -46*       863         21      3,822        58
|December '01      6,454       -377*    13,077        109*    40,678       562
|March    '02     16,146         42*     5,166         75      6,485       605
|May      '02     10,396        161*     1,559          7      4,715       386
|July     '02     17,064        466*       519        -13*     3,250       461
|October  '02      2,035        103        140          0        188        26
|December '02      1,490       -153*       204         12      2,551       494
|March    '03        158          0          0          0        120         0
|May      '03        297          0          0          0         18         0
|July     '03        216          0          0          0          0         0
|December '03         80          0*         0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       55,516        196*    21,528        211*    62,034     2,492
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|7/19/01
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