Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 45
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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 11/9/01
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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 | 11/9/01 | Week
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|December '01 4,648 -225 9,412 -2,530 22,033 -5,432
|March '02 14,830 -232 9,188 224 17,413 2,189
|May '02 8,789 -53 2,932 -154 6,215 512
|July '02 15,047 -313* 1,168 29 7,019 625
|October '02 1,902 160 140 -11 271 12
|December '02 2,359 39 207 0 4,013 -35
|March '03 1,047 -39 0 0 511 38
|May '03 710 -37 11 11 317 75
|July '03 927 0 20 -10 157 10
|October '03 70 0 0 0 10 10
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 50,409 -700* 23,078 -2,441 57,959 -1,996
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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
|11/15/01
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