Cotton On-Call Report
CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week ending
November 9, 2001 should be faxed to (202) 418-5527 by the close of business
on Tuesday, November 13, 2001.
| Weekly Report No. 44
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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 11/2/01
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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 | 11/2/01 | Week
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|December '01 4,873 -1,219 11,942 -2,012 27,465 -2,130
|March '02 15,062 -140* 8,964 -20* 15,224 2,582
|May '02 8,842 -334 3,086 -15 5,703 325
|July '02 15,153 -881 1,139 0 6,394 934
|October '02 1,742 -6 151 0 259 43
|December '02 2,320 -16 207 0 4,048 152
|March '03 1,086 7 0 0 473 5
|May '03 747 3 0 0 242 8
|July '03 927 0 30 30 147 0
|October '03 70 0 0 0 0 0
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 50,902 -2,586* 25,519 -2,017* 59,955 1,919
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|* Changes from 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 (917) 225-7817.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|11/8/01
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