Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 35
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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 8/31/01
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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 | 8/31/01 | Week
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|October '01 1,108 91 1,086 -18 3,521 -252
|December '01 8,452 108 17,473 468 43,603 795
|March '02 19,122 -122 9,458 145 7,850 28
|May '02 11,259 31 2,999 200 5,010 75
|July '02 17,140 -475 633 9 3,709 -64
|October '02 2,052 30 140 0 222 22
|December '02 2,228 111 144 0 2,869 26
|March '03 936 475 0 0 163 1
|May '03 636 127 0 0 216 0
|July '03 893 231 0 0 52 13
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 63,906 607 31,933 804 67,215 644
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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
|9/6/01
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