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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