Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 29
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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 7/20/01
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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 | 7/20/01 | Week
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|July '01 0 0 0 0 0 -207
|October '01 1,152 -28 1,305 442 3,937 115
|December '01 8,827 2,373 15,957 2,880 40,367 -311
|March '02 19,480 3,334 9,243 4,077 6,933 448
|May '02 11,819 1,423 3,053 1,494 4,737 22
|July '02 17,371 307 530 11 3,320 70
|October '02 1,850 -185 151 11 193 5
|December '02 1,682 192 204 0 2,582 31
|March '03 136 -22 0 0 120 0
|May '03 297 0 0 0 18 0
|July '03 216 0 0 0 0 0
|December '03 0 -80 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 62,830 7,314 30,443 8,915 62,207 173
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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
|7/26/01
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