Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 23
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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 6/8/01
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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 | 6/8/01 | Week
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|July '01 3,927 -1,008* 4,818 -752* 24,094 -3,295
|October '01 1,386 34 687 8 1,731 203
|December '01 7,029 314 8,321 -42 27,860 2,241
|March '02 16,381 240 5,123 89* 4,663 127
|May '02 9,402 324 61 45 3,995 352
|July '02 15,056 494 230 19 1,704 9
|October '02 1,659 179 140 0 155 0
|December '02 1,015 106 192 0 1,891 12
|March '03 167 -8 0 0 100 6
|May '03 320 98 0 0 1 1
|July '03 183 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 56,525 773* 19,572 -633* 66,194 -344
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|* Changes from the 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 (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|6/14/01
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