Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 14
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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 4/6/01
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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 | 4/6/01 | Week
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|May '01 2,083 280 6,156 -362 27,942 -1,645
|July '01 7,684 -892 2,438 -280 21,071 2,840
|October '01 1,299 -23 566 15 1,208 -8
|December '01 6,314 720 4,255 214 19,076 222
|March '02 14,303 1,460 5,015 0 2,444 126
|May '02 6,447 1,110 0 0 2,259 183
|July '02 10,294 1,547 0 0 1,156 7
|October '02 1,196 227 0 0 155 0
|December '02 697 117 142 0 962 109
|March '03 76 0 0 0 31 0
|May '03 26 -4 0 0 0 0
|July '03 58 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 50,477 4,542 18,572 -413 76,304 1,834
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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
|4/12/01
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