Cotton On Call Report


|                                Weekly Report No. 11
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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  3/16/01
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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    |  3/16/01 |  Week
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|March    '01          0          0          0          0          0      -389
|May      '01      2,470       -625      6,286       -438     33,709    -2,336
|July     '01      9,857     -2,133      2,392        -37*    15,055       592
|October  '01      1,132       -127        498         33      1,307       187
|December '01      5,195         -9      2,354        250     16,087     1,723
|March    '02     12,510        200      5,015         15      1,683       219
|May      '02      4,990        382          0        -15      1,355       277
|July     '02      8,008        331          0          0      1,076         4
|October  '02        916        130          0          0        150        30
|December '02        447        121        142          0        305        36
|March    '03         37         14          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:       45,607     -1,716     16,687       -192*    70,727       343
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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
|3/22/01
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