Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 15
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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 4/13/01
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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 | 4/13/01 | Week
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|May '01 1,758 -325 5,542 -614 17,644 -10,298
|July '01 7,423 -261 2,723 285 26,041 4,970
|October '01 2,041 742 573 7 1,234 26
|December '01 6,711 397 4,186 -69 19,796 720
|March '02 15,240 937 5,015 0 2,767 323
|May '02 7,057 610 0 0 2,392 133
|July '02 11,588 1,294 0 0 1,163 7
|October '02 1,196 0 0 0 155 0
|December '02 699 2 142 0 1,007 45
|March '03 72 -4 0 0 45 14
|May '03 37 11 0 0 0 0
|July '03 78 20 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 53,900 3,423 18,181 -391 72,244 -4,060
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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
|4/19/01
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