Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 17
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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  4/27/01
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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    |  4/27/01 |  Week
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|May      '01         18       -592        133     -2,929        218    -4,455
|July     '01      7,146       -373      6,642      2,172     34,981     1,526
|October  '01      1,589         67*       571         59      1,406       179
|December '01      6,842         87      5,949        -65     20,449       119
|March    '02     16,083        553      5,015          0      2,996        77
|May      '02      7,705        291          0          0      2,455        41
|July     '02     12,221        218          0          0      1,190        27
|October  '02      1,296         40          0          0        155         0
|December '02        699          0        142          0      1,792       665
|March    '03         72          0          0          0         45         0
|May      '03        142          0          0          0          0         0
|July     '03        216          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       54,029        291*    18,452       -763     65,687    -1,821
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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 (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|5/3/01
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