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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