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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