Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 5
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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 2/2/01
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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 | 2/2/01 | Week
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|March '01 2,108 -11 3,173 -1,689 29,097 -2,729
|May '01 6,764 -110 6,208 1,291 20,816 2,906
|July '01 16,222 -848 2,662 229 11,353 1,007
|October '01 1,518 -23 445 57 1,106 22
|December '01 3,684 407 1,636 9 10,978 171
|March '02 9,226 555 5,000 0 915 231
|May '02 3,322 378 15 15 397 133
|July '02 5,062 580 0 0 301 10
|October '02 224 0 0 0 5 0
|December '02 186 159 142 0 14 0
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| Totals: 48,316 1,087 19,281 -88 74,982 1,751
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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
|2/8/01
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