Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 18
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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 5/4/01
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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 | 5/4/01 | Week
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|May '01 0 -18 0 -133 15 -203
|July '01 6,310 -435* 7,684 500* 34,671 -310
|October '01 2,261 24* 557 -14 1,430 24
|December '01 7,264 382* 7,215 1,206* 20,364 -85
|March '02 16,825 742 5,030 0* 3,146 150
|May '02 8,540 479* 16 0* 2,562 107
|July '02 14,460 1,662* 153 0* 1,244 54
|October '02 1,316 20 0 0 155 0
|December '02 701 2 142 0 1,852 60
|March '03 72 0 0 0 45 0
|May '03 142 0 0 0 0 0
|July '03 78 -138 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 57,969 2,720* 20,797 1,559* 65,484 -203
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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
|5/10/01
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