Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 46
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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 11/16/01
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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 | 11/16/01| Week
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|December '01 1,252 -3,396 4,046 -5,344* 12,283 -9,750
|March '02 14,466 -364 9,374 186 25,114 7,701
|May '02 8,211 -578 2,965 33 6,938 723
|July '02 14,495 -552 1,518 350 7,327 308
|October '02 2,046 144 151 11 356 85
|December '02 2,264 -95 297 90 4,604 591
|March '03 1,016 -31 0 0 580 69
|May '03 710 0 29 18 372 55
|July '03 927 0 51 31 248 91
|October '03 70 0 0 0 10 0
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 45,537 -4,872 18,431 -4,625* 57,832 -127
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
| * Changes from previous week are based on revised data for last week.
|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
|11/26/01
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