Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 13
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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 3/30/01
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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 | 3/30/01 | Week
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|May '01 1,803 -386* 6,518 -315* 29,587 -2,808
|July '01 8,576 -845 2,718 318* 18,231 2,077
|October '01 1,322 -10* 551 51 1,216 30
|December '01 5,594 109* 4,041 -97 18,854 1,451
|March '02 12,843 -163 5,015 0 2,318 244
|May '02 5,337 171 0 0 2,076 361
|July '02 8,747 442 0 0 1,149 31
|October '02 969 0 0 0 155 5
|December '02 580 33 142 0 853 45
|March '03 76 38 0 0 31 21
|May '03 30 8 0 0 0 0
|July '03 58 14 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 45,935 -589* 18,985 -43* 74,470 1,457
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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
|4/5/01
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