Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 10
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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  3/9/01
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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    |  3/9/01  |  Week
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|March    '01          0         -6          0          0        389      -326
|May      '01      3,095        -18      6,724       -264*    36,045      -166
|July     '01     11,990       -640*     2,428       -126*    14,463       -78
|October  '01      1,259          6        465          4      1,120        16
|December '01      5,204        270      2,104        185     14,364       831
|March    '02     12,310        296      5,000          0      1,464         7
|May      '02      4,608        104         15          0      1,078        44
|July     '02      7,677        149          0          0      1,072         5
|October  '02        786        -63          0          0        120         0
|December '02        326          0        142          0        269        27
|March    '03         23          1          0          0          0         0
|May      '03         15          0          0          0          0         0
|July     '03         30          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       47,323         99*    16,878       -201*    70,384       360
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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.
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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
|3/15/01
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