Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 30
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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 7/27/01
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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 | 7/27/01 | Week
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|October '01 1,372 220 1,115 -190 4,069 132
|December '01 9,257 430 15,936 -21 38,174 -2,193
|March '02 19,502 32* 9,307 64 6,946 13
|May '02 11,384 -435 3,053 0 4,730 -7
|July '02 17,318 -53 569 39 3,406 86
|October '02 1,850 0 151 0 193 0
|December '02 1,741 59 204 0 2,626 44
|March '03 218 82 0 0 120 0
|May '03 297 0 0 0 18 0
|July '03 346 130 0 0 0 0
|December '03 80 80 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 63,365 545* 30,335 -108 60,282 -1,925
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|8/2/01
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