Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 8
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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 2/23/01
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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 | 2/23/01 | Week
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|March '01 57 -886 500 -1,392 1,323 -8,067
|May '01 3,967 -1,285 8,044 950 35,570 2,478
|July '01 13,853 -1,297 2,925 70 15,162 1,609
|October '01 1,377 -161 457 -17 931 -11
|December '01 4,924 473 1,964 103 12,677 274
|March '02 11,198 584 5,000 -15 1,252 4
|May '02 4,092 315 15 15 872 109
|July '02 6,779 440 0 0 1,058 56
|October '02 747 134 0 0 12 7
|December '02 263 24 142 0 215 191
|March '03 23 23 0 0 0 0
|May '03 15 15 0 0 0 0
|July '03 30 30 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 47,325 -1,591 19,047 -286 69,072 -3,350
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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
|3/1/01
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