Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 9
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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 3/2/01
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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 | 3/2/01 | Week
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|March '01 6 -51 0 -500 715 -608
|May '01 3,113 -854 6,991 -1,013* 36,211 641
|July '01 12,639 -1,214 2,556 -350* 14,541 -621
|October '01 1,253 -124 461 4 1,104 173
|December '01 4,934 10 1,919 -45 13,533 856
|March '02 12,014 816 5,000 0 1,457 205
|May '02 4,504 412 15 0 1,034 162
|July '02 7,528 749 0 0 1,067 9
|October '02 849 102 0 0 120 108
|December '02 326 63 142 0 242 27
|March '03 22 -1 0 0 0 0
|May '03 15 0 0 0 0 0
|July '03 30 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 47,233 -92 17,084 -1,904* 70,024 952
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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
|3/8/01
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