Cotton On Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 10
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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 3/9/01
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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 | 3/9/01 | Week
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|March '01 0 -6 0 0 389 -326
|May '01 3,095 -18 6,724 -264* 36,045 -166
|July '01 11,990 -640* 2,428 -126* 14,463 -78
|October '01 1,259 6 465 4 1,120 16
|December '01 5,204 270 2,104 185 14,364 831
|March '02 12,310 296 5,000 0 1,464 7
|May '02 4,608 104 15 0 1,078 44
|July '02 7,677 149 0 0 1,072 5
|October '02 786 -63 0 0 120 0
|December '02 326 0 142 0 269 27
|March '03 23 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: 47,323 99* 16,878 -201* 70,384 360
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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
|3/15/01
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