Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 19
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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 5/11/01
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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 | 5/11/01 | Week
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|May '01 0 0 0 0 0 -15
|July '01 6,076 -234 7,339 -345 34,350 -321
|October '01 1,388 -873 488 -69 1,457 27
|December '01 6,855 -409 7,633 418 21,133 769
|March '02 16,439 -386 5,030 0 3,525 379
|May '02 8,392 -148 16 0 3,181 619
|July '02 14,238 -222 153 0 1,267 23
|October '02 1,425 109 0 0 155 0
|December '02 727 26 192 50 1,877 25
|March '03 72 0 0 0 45 0
|May '03 146 4 0 0 0 0
|July '03 78 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 55,836 -2,133 20,851 54 66,990 1,506
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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
|5/17/01
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