Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 32
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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 8/10/01
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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 | 8/10/01 | Week
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|October '01 1,005 -273 1,243 -47 3,930 -312
|December '01 8,748 -537 16,957 925 41,938 1,542
|March '02 19,317 -140 9,307 0 7,721 569
|May '02 11,396 90 3,045 -63 4,790 -31
|July '02 17,510 404 574 4 3,526 26
|October '02 2,001 87 140 0 195 2
|December '02 1,913 220 144 -10 2,697 60
|March '03 461 213 0 0 145 25
|May '03 509 153 0 0 216 198
|July '03 662 286 0 0 20 20
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 63,602 503 31,410 809 65,178 2,099
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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
|8/16/01
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