Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 22
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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  6/1/01
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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    |  6/1/01  |  Week
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|July     '01      5,024       -697      5,605     -1,191     27,389    -4,491
|October  '01      1,352        -55        679         61      1,528       -22
|December '01      6,715        141      8,363       -233     25,619     1,632
|March    '02     16,141       -114      5,039          0      4,536       -57
|May      '02      9,078        744         16          0      3,643       274
|July     '02     14,562        485        211         58      1,695       123
|October  '02      1,480          0        140        140        155         0
|December '02        909        274        192          0      1,879       -23
|March    '03        175         89          0          0         94        50
|May      '03        222         27          0          0          0         0
|July     '03        183          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       55,841        894     20,245     -1,165     66,538    -2,514
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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
|6/7/01
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