Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 6
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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  2/9/01
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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    |  2/9/01  |  Week
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|March    '01      1,616       -492      2,311        774*    24,433    -4,664
|May      '01      5,927       -837      7,121        816*    25,744     4,928
|July     '01     15,570       -652      3,077        415     12,806     1,453
|October  '01      1,525          7        456         11      1,143        37
|December '01      3,809        125      1,731         95     11,828       850
|March    '02      9,778        552      5,055         55      1,176       261
|May      '02      3,397         75         31         16        687       290
|July     '02      5,488        426          0          0        994       693
|October  '02        293         69          0          0          5         0
|December '02        191          5        142          0         24        10
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|   Totals:       47,594       -722     19,924        634*    78,840     3,858
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|*  Changes from previous week are based on revised data for last week.

|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
|2/15/01
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