Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 21
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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 5/25/01
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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 | 5/25/01 | Week
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|July '01 5,721 211 6,796 -505 31,880 -977
|October '01 1,407 84 618 84 1,550 92
|December '01 6,574 -140 8,596 37 23,987 2,538
|March '02 16,255 -38 5,039 9 4,593 874
|May '02 8,334 -27 16 0 3,369 116
|July '02 14,077 160 153 0 1,572 56
|October '02 1,480 42 0 0 155 0
|December '02 635 53 192 0 1,902 25
|March '03 86 0 0 0 44 -1
|May '03 195 49 0 0 0 0
|July '03 183 -33 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 54,947 361 21,410 -375 69,052 2,723
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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
|5/31/01
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