Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 12
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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 3/23/01
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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 | 3/23/01 | Week
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|May '01 2,198 -272 6,553 267 32,395 -1,314
|July '01 9,421 -436 2,401 9 16,154 1,099
|October '01 1,329 197 500 2 1,186 -121
|December '01 5,487 292 4,138 1,784 17,403 1,316
|March '02 13,006 496 5,015 0 2,074 391
|May '02 5,166 176 0 0 1,715 360
|July '02 8,305 297 0 0 1,118 42
|October '02 969 53 0 0 150 0
|December '02 547 100 142 0 808 503
|March '03 38 1 0 0 10 10
|May '03 22 7 0 0 0 0
|July '03 44 14 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 46,532 925 18,749 2,062 73,013 2,286
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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
|3/29/01
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