Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 34
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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 8/24/01
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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 | 8/24/01 | Week
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|October '01 1,017 103 1,104 -150 3,773 -78
|December '01 8,344 -132 17,005 82 42,808 154
|March '02 19,244 -200 9,313 0 7,822 66
|May '02 11,228 82 2,799 -1 4,935 51
|July '02 17,615 -100 624 0 3,773 197
|October '02 2,022 14 140 0 200 5
|December '02 2,117 72 144 0 2,843 149
|March '03 461 -17 0 0 162 0
|May '03 509 0 0 0 216 0
|July '03 662 0 0 0 39 19
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 63,299 -178 31,129 -69 66,571 563
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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
|8/30/01
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